Pasta

Pasta is a food that has universal appeal. While noodles, macaroni and spaghetti have long been popular both at home and in restaurants, more elaborate forms of pasta have become a symbol of the modern cuisine.

All pasta (meaning paste in Italian) is based on starchy dough. There are two kinds of dough, one containing egg, the other eggless. They are more or less interchangeable. The simpler and probably the original form is eggless pasta, made from a variety of flours, including whole wheat and rice flour. Dried commercial pasta, the most familiar type of eggless pasta, is made with hard wheat (durum) flour and water and makes a resilient dough that can withstand rolling and shaping by machine.