Many recipes for making fresh pasta assume you need a pasta machine, and in 'Food Factory' on BBC1 they even tried to make spaghetti with a meat mincer. Hmmm. In Italy you just need a long wooden ...

Few things beat the convenience of dumping a package of pasta into a pot of salted, boiling water and having noodles ready to go in less than 10 minutes. Dried pasta remains a pantry staple of mine — ...