Durum wheat also sets Italian pasta apart from Asian noodles ... Penne was invented in 1865 when Italian pastamaker Giovanni Battista Capurro made a machine that cut thin tubes of pasta dough at an ...

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 ...

Thicker than spaghetti, this hollow durum wheat pasta comes from the ... like noodles that stand out compared with machine-made varieties. The Tuscan pasta is served with traditional local ...