Side dish: What's better than a pasta dish? A basic recipe from Italian cuisine. Cooking your pasta is not always an easy task: the cooking time, the addition of olive oil or butter, what volume of ...

Here's everything you need to know to avoid a sticky situation on pasta night.

Why is a plate of pasta generally so much better in Italy? There are a lot of reasons, but let’s start with the most basic. They made the rules for how to cook and serve the pasta, and chefs ...

Pasta is one of the most reliable, fuss-free dinners of all time, But, for some reason, there are still common pasta-cooking misconceptions out there that are over-complicating it. Home cooks ...

No matter what kind of pasta dish you’re making, from pasta salad to a classic spaghetti carbonara, overcooking your pasta is the easiest way to ruin your meal. You may have heard of the term “al ...

Do You Have To Salt Pasta Water? In short, yes. You’d never cook pasta sauce (or nearly anything else) without properly ...

Andrea Scotti receives funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and the Swedish Research Council. Whether you prefer your spaghetti al dente or soothingly soft, it can be difficult to ...

If it's not tough and chewy, it's reduced to an unpalatable mush—there's certainly a fine art in cooking pasta perfectly al dente. And thanks to scientists and a surprising use of a particle ...