PASTA FOR BEGINNERS: A Comprehensive Manual for Pasta-Making, Pasta and Your Health: Pros and Cons, The Various Flour Needed, Starting from Scratch and More Pasta is a sort of cuisine that is traditionally created from an unleavened pastry of wheat flour combined with either water or eggs, shaped into sheets and other forms, and then boiled or baked. Wheat flour can be substituted with rice flour or legumes like beans or lentils for a different flavor and texture, or because they are gluten-free. Italian meal would not be complete without pasta. Dried pasta (pasta secca) & fresh pasta (pasta fresca) are the two main types of pasta available. Dried pasta can be made at home, although professional production typically uses an extrusion method. Traditional methods of making fresh pasta involve hand labor, augmented by rudimentary equipment. Commercially available fresh pastas are made by large-scale machinery. There are several shapes and types of both drying and fresh pasta, with over 1,300 different names for 310 distinct shapes. In Italy, the identities of individual pasta shapes or sorts often vary by area. For instance, the pasta shape cavatelli goes by 28 distinct names across the country. Pasta comes in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, including strands, tubes, flat sheets, minis, stuffed varieties, and unique or ornamental shapes. These and many more will be discussed about herein in this guide! Simply scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button to instantly obtain your copy! You'll be pleased that you did!