Rob Truglia says I have the aura of cavatappi. He’s deduced this by looking through my Instagram, and by asking me a few quick questions about my life and habits. My curly hair determined the shape, but my image of myself as a help and support to those I love confirms that I’m a pasta with some heft to it, that can stand up to looser sauces and big flavors.

Truglia began being able to see people as their corresponding pastas while on a trip to Italy. He has diagnosed himself as gemelli (“a short, twisted pasta, and that’s all you really need to know”), and his business partner Jeff Petriello as rigatoni (“they’re just loud, amazing, jovial; everyone loves rigatoni”).