{"id":3286,"date":"2023-07-12T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walks.friday.ie\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:06:07","slug":"italian-pasta-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walksofitaly.com\/blog\/food-and-wine\/italian-pasta-shapes","title":{"rendered":"Types of Italian Pasta: Bucatini, Tagliatelle, Orecchiette & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italy is known throughout the world for many reasons, but there’s little more famous than its many pastas. An iconic food across the peninsula, no trip to Italy is complete without sampling all the types of Italian pasta!<\/p>\n

We’ve said before:\u00a0Italian food is regional<\/a>, and that goes for its pasta too!\u00a0Local kinds of pasta in Florence<\/a>\u00a0differ from those in Rome, Milan, or Palermo.\u00a0Each locale has a pasta with its own unique recipe, with its own unique shape, length, size and\u00a0story.<\/p>\n\"woman\n

Not only that, but Italians swear\u00a0that each pasta has its own sauce. To truly eat authentic pasta, you need to match\u00a0each type\u00a0with the correct sauce. Those little shells? Great with a cheese sauce. Long, flat tagliatelle? Nothing’s better than a classic rag\u00f9. Short, twisted Ligurian trofie? Covered with homemade pesto<\/a>, naturally!<\/p>\n

Bucatini, spaghetti, tortellini, rigatoni…<\/em> There are hundreds of different kinds\u00a0of Italian pastas,\u00a0each with its own name and delicious sauce.\u00a0Don’t know where to start? Here are some of our favorite pastas, and what their names mean in Italian!<\/p>\n

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