Pasta is unleavened dough formed into various shapes and boiled. Did you know that there are over 600 shapes of pasta and that their names describe their shapes? Spaghetti means cord, vermicelli means little worms (ew), rotini are spirals ... you get the idea. Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine with the first official reference to pasta dating back to 1154 in Sicily. October 25, 2014 is World Pasta Day. Yes, you heard that correctly. World. Pasta. Day. YAY! World Pasta Day …
