Now, you could just buy a box of penne pasta, use it for all sorts of quick-fix dinner needs and call it a day. But give this a thought: Penne pasta is but one of more than 300 different Italian ...

If you have a couple of pasta types on hand with different cooking times, you can toss in the ones with shorter cooking times later. For instance, penne has a nine- to 13-minute cooking time ...

“Crazy, wait until you hear this,” he says off-camera. “So big Teflon has their hands in the pasta industry. There’s two different types of pasta. There’s Teflon die and bronze die.

If you've ever cooked alongside an Italian, you'll know that cooking pasta properly is a very big deal. With around 350 different types of pasta, we are looking at which sauces pair best with which ...