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 ...

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 ...