Fresh pasta is one of life's greatest pleasures with a chewy texture, satisfying flavor, and ability to take on any sauce or filling and make it sing. Once prepared, it takes only 1 to 5 minutes for ...

If you have 20 minutes, you can make this pasta dish with cavatappi—fancy elbow macaroni—that holds onto all the creamy cheese sauce. While the pasta cooks, make the sauce with butter, garlic, heavy ...

Making pasta from scratch is the ultimate exercise in instinctual cooking. Karsten Moran for The New York Times With time and a little effort, a versatile pasta dough — made of just flour and eggs — ...

A true Roman holiday always begins with a mouthwatering dish of pasta fatta in casa. Since I was a baby, my family and I have spent our summers vacationing in Italy. Almost every August as far back as ...

When chef Carla Lalli Music recently made pasta with sausage and broccoli rabe for dinner, it came out too salty. Her error? She used oversalted pasta water to finish her sauce. “Sometimes it’s better ...

Pasta allo Scarpariello (literally shoemaker's pasta), as the story goes, was once made on the craftsman's rest day with ingredients he may have received from customers as payment for his work. Today, ...