Italian Cooking Forum - Pasta & Pasta

PASTA at 360 Degrees

Pasta is the daughter of the sun, water and workmanship of the Mediterranean men who learned how to transform a simple grain into a product that is made into formidable, tasty and healthy dishes all over the world. Pasta is the monument of Italian cuisine. Made of water and flour, it’s simple and excellent like all the cuisine of Italy.

The ancient Greeks, Etruscans, Romans and the people of the Middle Ages and Renaissance all loved pasta, but today’s pasta exists thanks to the Arabs and the people of Southern Italy, particularly the Neapolitans.

Learn why pasta is made in so many shapes—is it for the eyes or maybe for the sauces or the mouth?

“The art of cooking can be explained in terms of magic: I consider it a rite of transformation made possible by divine fire and the fantasy of the stove magician called the ‘chef.’”

“Don’t forget, pasta is the lady of the table: Once cooked, you should never make her wait!”

In a street of Naples: pasta monument to pasta

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