Not all pasta shapes are suited to the same sauce. Whether you’re making marinara or a thick, chunky sauce, here’s when to ...

Tubular pastas such as penne or ziti serve as the wrapping paper ... Starting with the right pasta shapes for your sauce and finishing your dish with these tips will make for the perfect pairing.

There are many options on the gluten-free market today that offer a simple and flavorful replacement for typical ...

SHAPE: Penne translates to “pen.” It is a short, cylinder-shaped pasta that has angled edges and grooves on the outside. SERVED: This pasta shape pairs well with chunky meat or vegetable ...

For mozzarella, use Muenster or other similar melty cheese. For rigatoni, use ziti, cavatappi or other short, tubular pasta shape. Variations: To make this dish more weeknight-friendly ...

As we noted in our recipe for it, “The divots in the pasta make this shape especially good at catching sauce,” so go wild. If you love ziti, you’ll love zitoni, because essentially a wider ...

A native New Yorker of Mexican heritage, Diana Perez has spent the last 17 years working across the culinary media landscape. A graduate of Syracuse University (cum laude), Diana first worked in ...