There’s a pasta for almost every day of the year
PEOPLE OFTEN like to quote General Charles de Gaulle??s comment on France: ??How do you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese??? But spare a thought for Italy??s Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who has to govern a country with more than 300 types of dried pasta. And that??s not counting the regional names for the same pasta shape.
Most pasta shapes are logically named and logically designed for particular sauces. Long, thin pasta such as spaghetti (strings) and linguine (tongues) suit thin, slippery tomato sauce or light seafood sauce. Long, flat pasta such as fettuccine (ribbons) and tagliatelle