Does your favorite Italian restaurant make pasta fresh daily or purchase premade pastas? If the answer is the latter, consider proposing a joint venture business opportunity to the owner of the ...

A box of dried pasta is a must-have in any kitchen pantry for a few reasons. It's nonperishable, meaning as long as you can boil water, you'll always have food. Plus, a simple pasta dish with ...

Fresh pasta has a softer, more absorbent texture ... while a sauce with chunks of meat is more likely to be served with wide pasta such as tagliatelle or short tube shapes such as penne.

What it does take is patience. For the meat sauce to achieve its ideal texture, it must cook low and slow—around 3 hours—on the stovetop. Luckily, most of that cooking time is hands-off.

Fresh pasta has a softer, more absorbent texture ... while a sauce with chunks of meat is more likely to be served with wide pasta such as tagliatelle or short tube shapes such as penne.