Melba's Jammin' > wrote:

> Mostaccioli: finished dish or type of pasta? You decide!

It is not anything for us to decide - it is something already defined.

In the culinary context, Mostaccioli (little moustaches) can mean two
things. It is either a tubular shape of pasta, originating apparently
in Campania, or a certain type of Christmas biscuit or cookie made with
flour, honey, anise liqueur, and butter, and which originated in
Calabria (but is ultimately of Arab origin), where it is also called
'nzudda.

The pasta shape is indeed very similar to penne (lisce or rigate, as the
case may be) but a bit wider and shorter, somewhere between penne and
pennoni, but closer to penne.

Bubba