Long pasta
Long pasta may be made by extrusion or rolling and cutting
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Barbina
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Thin strands often coiled into nests
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Little beards
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Bigoli
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Thick tubes, often made of buckwheat or wholewheat flour
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Bucatini
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The name comes from Italian: buco, meaning "hole", while bucato means
"pierced".
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Capelli d'angelo
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A synonym of capellini, they are coiled into nests
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Angel hair
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Capellini
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The thinnest type of long pasta
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Literally "thin hair" in Italian language
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Fedelini
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A very thin spaghetti.
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Little faithful ones
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Fusilli
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Long, thick, corkscrew shaped pasta that may be solid or hollow.
Hollow fusilli are also called fusilli bucati.
Pictured is fusilli in a pesto sauce.
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The word fusilli presumably comes from fuso,
as traditionally it is "spun" by pressing and rolling a small rod
over each thin strips of pasta to wind them around it in a corkscrew shape,
much like a modern Turkish spindle. Long rifles.
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Fusilli bucati
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Long coiled tubes that are hollow. Also called fusili
col buco
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Holed rifles
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Matriciani
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Similar to perciatelli, but folded over rather than hollowed out
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Pellizzoni
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Thick spaghetti
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Medium twines
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Perciatelli
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Identical to bucatini.
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From perciare "to hollow"
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Pici
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Very thick, long, hand rolled pasta. It originates in theprovince of Siena in Tuscany; in the Montalcino area it is also referred to
as pinci.
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Spaghetti
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A long, thin, cylindrical pasta of Italian origin.Spaghetti is made of semolina or flour and water.
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"Little strings."Spaghetti is the
plural form of the Italian word spaghetto,
which is a diminutive of spago, meaning "thin string"
or "twine".
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Spaghettini
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Thin spaghetti
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Small little twines
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Spaghettoni
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Vermicelli
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A traditional pasta round that is thicker than spaghetti.
(refers in U.S. to a style thinner than spaghetti)
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Worms
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Vermicelloni
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Thick vermicelli
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Large little worms
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Ziti
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Long, narrow hose-like tubes sized smaller than rigatoni but
larger than mezzani. The addition of the word rigati (e.g. ziti rigati)
denotes lines or ridges on the pasta's surface.
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Zito is Italian for "bridegroom." (Ziti is
plural).
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Zitoni
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Wider version of Ziti
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Large ziti
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