While a bad day can often be remedied by talking to a loved one or going for a walk, there is one cure that's scientifically proven to boost your mood: eating pasta. A new study conducted by the ...

Most of us could offer first-person accounts of how happy pasta makes us, but it's nice to know that scientists have finally researched this phenomenon and confirmed it. Two particular studies, both ...

This pasta is no limp noodle. When imprinted with carefully designed arrangements of grooves, flat pasta morphs as it cooks, forming tubes, spirals and other shapes traditional for the starchy ...

To my grandmother, who has lived her entire life in Italy, gluten-free pasta is “una follia”—nonsense, madness. A twirl of spaghetti or forkful of rigatoni should provide a familiar textural delight: ...

Italians are notoriously — and understandably — protective of their cuisine, as frequent arguments about the correct toppings for pizza or the appropriate pasta to use with a Bolognese ragu will ...

When chef and restaurateur Evan Funke went to Italy in 2007 to study pasta making, he was struck by the ubiquity of “pasta laboratories,” where patrons could observe chefs at work. “A connection is ...

New year, new you, new diet. It’s a familiar refrain. One popular dieting technique is to create a food blacklist. Quitting “carbs” or packaged foods is common, which can mean avoiding supermarket ...

While making pasta might seem easy, achieving the perfect plate involves a lot of art and science. If you think the secret ...