pasta

  • You Can Make Many Pasta Shapes From Just One

    You Can Make Many Pasta Shapes From Just One

    Show me someone who can turn away a bowl of heart-shaped cacio e pepe, and I’ll show you someone who needs a hug. It might be hard to find such whimsical pasta on the shelves of the grocery store, but you can make hearts, squares, linguine, pappardelle, and countless other shapes of pasta all from…


  • So You Forgot to Reserve Some Pasta Water

    So You Forgot to Reserve Some Pasta Water

    In spite of what the word may suggest, cream is not the key to creating “creamy” pasta dishes. That distinction belongs to pasta water, the starchy elixir with the power to thicken sauces and help them cling to and coat noodles with tenacity. Reserving a cup before draining the pasta an important step, but accidents…