"Yes" > wrote:
>
>What's the reasoning to choose one pasta type (for example, sphaghetti)
>over another (say vermicelli or those elbow things) to serve as the
>pasta component of a meal? Does the shape really matter to the taste
>of the dish?
Women tend to enjoy big tubular pasta like manicotti and cannelloni...
guys seem to have an affinity for small stubby/frilly pasta like mezzi
rigatoni, gigli, and campanelle... sauce has nothing to do with it so
long as it's hot and abbondanza!
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