More Than Spaghetti: Can You Identify These Lesser-Known Pasta Shapes?

So you love to eat pasta – who doesn’t? But how much do you really know about it? There are at least 350 different types of pasta from shapes as simple as tubes to more complicated bows, squiggles, and intricately folded pockets that can hold fillings like cheese and meat. This quiz will put your pasta knowledge to the test, asking you to identify the name of each type of pasta based on a picture.

Are you a true Italian cuisine expert, or could you only pick spaghetti out of a pasta lineup? Test you knowledge below, but brush up on every type of pasta the Matador team could track down first.

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