"Luca Pinotti"
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>> Pandopa wrote:
>>> "Luca Pinotti"
>>> >> Ken Knecht wrote:
>>> >>> I assume it's a pasta shape. I looked in Google but while seeing
>>> >>> lots of
>>> >>> recipes I couldn't find a description.
>>> >>
>>> >> Penne means pen (or pencil), I think, and that's the shape of the
>>> >> pasta. But, I'm not sure.
>>> > Penna (penne pl.): feather, plume, pen, quill.
>>>
>>> The shape of pasta "penne" it's more similar to a pen (pencil) not to a
>>> plume
>>> Pandora
>>
>> Nope. Penne is so named because it is representitive of a plume, a
>> quill pen (a pen made from a feather)... the modern pencil had not yet
>> been invented at the time of the penne designation for that particular
>> pasta configuration. I'll let yoose investigate the etymology for
>> pencil.

>
> Correct. The pencil (wooden sheath and graphite) was invented in 1795.
> "Goose pen" (feather with properly cut hollow shaft or calamus [hence the
> italian word "calamaio" for ink pot]) is far more acient.

I meant stilographic pen

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Pandora