Piping Hot Pasta

Appears in

#44The Silver Palate Cookbook
The Silver Palate Cookbook

By Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins

Published 1982

  • About
Not even the Italians know how many shapes pasta comes in. They have long considered it among their works of art, and the celebration of color and shape that seems to dominate Italian life is found in their pasta as well.

Thomas Jefferson first imported the pasta machine to America, just at the time that Yankee Doodle was calling the feather in his cap “Macaroni.” Even then pasta was an Italian staple, although well-traveled Englishmen had long since made it a favorite “exotic” food back in London. No longer exotic, pasta feels more like a welcome member of the American food family.