Pasta For All!

You can't even get people to agree on how many forms of pasta there are in the world. Some say 27, some say 30.

You have your bucatini, angel hair (cappellini), Cascatelli, Cavatappi, Elbow Macaroni, Farfalle (Bow Ties), Fettuccine, Linguine, Penne, Ravioli, Rigatoni, and, of course, Fusilli.

And how about this? Recent estimates say that Italians ate over 60 pounds of pasta per person, per year, easily beating Americans, who gobbled about 20 pounds per person.

But, beside the fact that you can tell the young person in your family planning on their future career that there is a job out there estimating how much pasta people in all different countries consume annually, there is this fact: Spaghetti is the most-loved pasta shape in the United States, according to Barilla.

And even there, you have choices:  Angel hair? Linguine? Fettuccini? 

So many choices on what to cook or order, but you can figure it out if you use your noodle.