If you're a fan of Italian cuisine, and pasta in particular, you might have considered making your own. Shelling out for a pasta machine, however, it's not an inexpensive commitment, and if you are ...

This very Old World Italian, Harp-like pasta making device is fun to use, but not very well known. The Chitarra, the Italian word for Guitar, is pronounced (key-tahr-rah). There are two sides for ...

In 1978, I purchased my first pasta machine at a tag sale in New Canaan, Conn. It was a small, steel, manually operated Atlas machine, the type that clamped onto a breadboard or the edge of a counter.

Few people make fresh pasta at home, and it’s not difficult to see why. Who wouldn’t be put off by demonstrations that include piles of flour on cutting boards, or pasta-rolling machines spitting out ...

A woman in the supermarket recently asked me if I knew what "pappardelle" was. I explained to her that it is a very wide noodle often served with hearty pasta sauces such as the well-known Bolognese ...

Of course, if you want to take a weekend day and invest an hour or two making and rolling out your own pasta dough, it will yield the most satisfying result. However, if you decide to skip this part, ...

Many of us feel like we can't have homemade, fresh pasta at home without getting a machine that'll run the dough through and cut it nicely for us, but nothing is further from the truth. Making your ...

If this isn’t an advertisement for pre-packaged pasta, nothing is. On Sunday, Philadelphia-based chef Joe Cicala got his hand crushed by a pasta sheeter after he accidentally let his fingers linger a ...

Going to the supermarket and buying pasta seems so much easier than making it yourself, but that isn’t necessarily true. You don’t need a bunch of gadgets and tools to make fresh pasta. All you need ...