12 Pasta Recipes From 11 Cuisines.

Italy’s gift to the world pantry: durum wheat and water (or flour and egg in the north), dried into hundreds of shapes, each engineered to carry a particular kind of sauce. The technique the whole world borrowed — cook it just short of tender, finish it in the sauce with a splash of starchy pasta water — turns two ingredients into a bound, glossy dish. Salt the water like the sea.

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