Pasta
Below are our 8 articles in the 'pasta' category:

The pasta sections of specialist Italian food shops can often resemble the contents of a children's toy cupboard. Indeed all those tubes and strings, and ribbons, not to mention the butterflies, ...

The process of manufacturing pasta has come along way since the days when strings of spaghetti were hung out on long lines on the streets of cities to dry in the sunshine. An eye catching and ...

In the past decade, the seemingly endless boxes and packets of dried pasta on supermarket shelves have been complemented in the cold cabinets by vacuum packed bags of the fresh variety, either in ...

The Italians are refreshingly frank when it comes to food. Take gnocchi. These light, fluffy little fellows would probably be likened to a pillow or cloud by those old culinary romantics, the ...


What's the most difficult aspect of pulling off a great pasta dish? Well, following the sauce recipe to the letter may well be the answer. Unfortunately, pouring all the care and attention into that ...

Such is the array of equipment available these days that by the time you'd returned from the kitchen suppliers, you wouldn't have any money to buy food to cook with it. Exaggeration? Well, perhaps a ...

Diners are so used to the arrival of their pasta course being closely followed by the waiter with his trusty grater or silver bowl of parmesan that they can get ever so slightly edgy when the ...