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 ...

Properly cooked pasta enhances texture and supports sauces and toppings. Al dente pasta is tender yet firm and holds its ...

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 ...

Pasta nights are a big deal in my house. Whether it’s a comforting bowl of creamy Alfredo or a zesty pasta salad for a picnic ...

Learn why orecchiette is the perfect spoonable pasta shape for your favourite sauces. Its small, concave form traps chunky ...

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 ...

Pasta is one of the world’s best foods. A bowl of pasta can nourish and satisfy like almost nothing else. In some instances, though, soggy, overcooked pasta can be coated in an unappealing sauce, ...

So often we treat pasta as nothing more than a vehicle for what we put on top of it, whether that's a chunky tomato sauce, basil pesto, or creamy Alfredo. What’s easy to forget is that if not cooked ...