Pasta is a wonderful, versatile food that you can incorporate into thousands of dishes in so many ways. Did you know that there are around 350 different types of pasta? Yeah, we were surprised too!

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. variety of dried pasta shapes - denio109/Shutterstock There are so many kinds of noodles you may need a guide to pasta shapes to ...

Noodling over pasta types People have been eating pasta for millennia, and in almost every country, pasta is consumed in some form. In some places, pasta is made with semolina flour and water, while ...

When I first packed my bags and moved to Florence, Italy, five years ago, I came as a culinary student ready to learn just about everything in Italian cuisine, from tiramisu to tortellini. However, it ...

It's not elbow pasta.

One of the tiniest kinds of pasta you’ll find at the supermarket is ancini de pepe. This itty bitty pastina gets its name from the Italian word for peppercorns, though this pasta is even tinier. Much ...

Italian cuisine recognizes more than 300 traditional pasta shapes, while global estimates exceed 500 and sometimes even higher, depending on classification. That level of variation did not happen for ...

Meet cascatelli, a pasta shape created by Dan Pashman, host of the food podcast The Sporkful. Why does the world need a new pasta shape? For Dan Pashman, host of the food podcast The Sporkful, there's ...

Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. Much of the ...