"Life is a mixture of pasta and magic", said Italy's most revered film director Federico Fellini, known the world over for his film La Dolce Vita (meaning, the "sweet life") Those who love Italy, also pine for the aesthetic pleasures of la dolce vita, including fast cars, fashion and pasta. But in America, there are only a few types of pasta we commonly eat.

The Italian word for pasta literally means paste. This water, flour and sometimes egg paste mixture, when rolled out, is responsible for hundreds of types of pasta shapes and dishes with over 800 years of documented history. But what comes to mind when you think of Italian pasta? Spaghetti, lasagna, fusilli, ravioli, fettuccine, for sure, but there are several hundred types of pasta that span this culinarily-obsessed country of 21 regions. One could spend their whole life trying to understand the magnitude of Italian pasta.

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Source: https://www.pastemagazine.com/