"Luca Pinotti"
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> "Pandora" > wrote in message
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>> "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
>
> Oh gosh... The fountain pen (as we know it today) is dated 1850 although
> there are examples dated 960 AD. ;-)

Let me know if you will find something else, after your investigation.
Are you writing from Italy or do you live in Usa?
ciao
Pandora