We are always building and tweaking our recipes for pasta dough. You have possibly already discovered that there are a…
types of pasta
Spaghetti is the classic pasta shape. The name means ‘small strings’ and is Italy’s favourite dish. Each Italian eats an…
Genoa and the region of Liguria boasts one of the most unusual pasta shapes: ‘corzetti‘, also known as ‘croxetti‘. This…
Coriandoli, pronounced ‘core-ree-ann-doli’, is the word for ‘confetti’ in Italian. Colourful and shaped pastas such as these are generally referred…
The word ‘gemelli‘ is Italian for “twins,” and appears to be a short pasta made up of two strands of…
This pasta shape comes in 3 sizes. Conchigliette are the smallest and traditionally used in soups. Conchiglie are the middle…
Cavatappi was created in southern Italy and due to its S-shaped spiral, is named after the Italian word for corkscrew….
Many Italian pasta shapes have a history and mafaldine is one of them. It is long, flat and 1/2 inch…
Linguine, meaning ‘little tongues’ in Italian, is a type of pasta produced both industrially or by hand from durum wheat…
Bucatini is a type of pasta famous in the Lazio region, central Italy. Bucatini looks like a very thick pasta….