Pasta is delicious, whether it’s rigatoni, linguine, macaroni or any shape at all! When you buy pasta from the store, it’s usually hard, crunchy, and dry. But after cooking it, the pasta is tender and toothsome! How does that work? We asked cookbook author and cooking teacher Julia Turshen to help us find the answer.
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Feb 2023
What's the best pasta shape?
Spaghetti, penne, farfalle, gnocchi, lasagna – just a few of the 300-plus shapes of pasta in existence. And there are some very strong opinions about them. This Italian staple is one of the world’s most popular foods and one of the most versatile. In this programme, Ruth Alexande ... Show More
33m 54s
Sep 2024
The Ridiculous, Murky Origins of Pasta, Part One: Basic Ingredients, Delicious Results
Pasta is amazing. But where does the concept come from? In part one of this week's two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max delve into the origin of a simple series of ingredients -- and discover there's a lot more to the story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
33 m
Sep 2021
Pop-Up Pasta Party
Pop the... pasta?! Join Mindy, Guy Raz, and the rest of the crew in Mindy's Noodle Caboodle as they discover the HOWs and WOWs of a new kind of noodle! What does 2D pasta look like?! And how could it help the planet and conserve energy? It's the who, what, when, where, how and WO ... Show More
27m 34s