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Pasta Quiz: Twists, Pockets and Perfect Bites

By Rondilo
Pasta Quiz: Twists, Pockets and Perfect Bites

6 questions on Italian shapes, a pasta-making town and the texture that makes the final forkful work.

Questions
6
Length
About 3 min
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  1. What is mixed with semolina flour to make traditional dried pasta?
  2. What does this pasta's Italian name mean?
  3. In Abruzzo, pasta makers cut square spaghetti on a wooden frame with strings. What do they call it?
  4. What shapes spaghetti into long strands?
  5. Why use bronze dies for pasta?
  6. Why add cloudy pasta water to an oily sauce?

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