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I had my no-pasta, no-carb period, as a teenager. I felt I absolutely had to shed those couple of kilos deposited exactly where they…

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Imagine two cute dogs in love, wandering around a big city. Now imagine the two eating a savoury dish of meatball spaghetti, and when…

In most of the world, pasta spells Italy. And, in Italy pasta conjures up images of wheat, golden fields, threshing machines, women gleaning the…

THE NUTRITIONIST ALESSANDRO BRASCHI ON THE GOOD AND BAD OF THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET Okinawa and 5-2, Dukan and Boot camp, Macrobiotic and Paleolitic, Frutarian…

Did the Italians really invent pasta or is it true that Marco Polo brought it over from China? When Englishmen in the 18th century began…

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” Federico Fellini Abolish pasta? Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of Italy’s Futurist movement, tried to deprive…

Fifty shades of yellow. It is not a Chinese imitation of the excruciating movie, but rather the flood of colours that overwhelm the senses…

How Futurism tried (and failed) to end the pasta culture. There was once a group of pioneers that had an idea that would revolutionize…

Don’t salt the water before it boils. Some they say that by salting the water before it boils, will help water to boil sooner….

PARENTS FURIOUS AT NEW DEAL IN SCHOOL MEALS ‘There have been other experiments to add a more varied choice on our school menus’, the…

Antonio Muratore 21 years old Works as pasta-chef at Jamie’s Italian London Bridge What did you study to become a chef?  I did a…