Could this be the definitive guide on the best and worst pasta shapes?

Pasta la vista baby!

Bucatini all’Amatriciana

Bucatini all’Amatriciana Source: Chris Chen

If your ordered a girandole, lumaconi or rotele, would you know what you were getting? Thankfully, is here to save the day by separating the pastas from the impastas and we salute him.

In honour of last week, this graphic designer and Italian carb enthusiast decided to crack down on what's hot and what's not when it comes to those less than common pasta shapes. In 280 characters, Rudnick uses his Twitter account to rank 22 pasta shapes, from 'meh' to 'marvellous', according to "carefully compiled criteria". Here's how the pasta education boiled over.
Can someone deliver us a bowl of mafaldine, please? We're starving after that...

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Published 31 October 2017 3:00pm
Updated 19 March 2021 12:22pm
By Farah Celjo


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