Three years to invent a pasta shapeSourced
He wanted pasta to hold more sauce.
He spent three years redesigning it.
Food podcaster Dan Pashman worked with a US pasta maker from 2018 to 2021 on a new shape. The result, cascatelli, combines a flat strip with perpendicular ruffles intended to catch sauce.
Even a piece of pasta
can be a design project.
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