An Italy that can’t grow its own wheat for pasta? It’s a race against time. Using a shared database in a Microsoft super-computer, scientists from Italy and other countries are working together to ...

Durum wheat (Triticum durum) is a species of wheat widely used in the production of pasta, couscous, and semolina. This hard wheat variety, named after the Latin word durum, meaning hard ...

Made from the flour of durum wheat, pasta takes its name from the pasty texture of the dough when it is first mixed. Different pastas have different names, many based on the different shapes the ...