In the olden days, there used to be two types of pasta: spaghetti and spaghetti hoops. Then a new pasta was discovered — tinned pillows called ravioli. Since then, science has had pasta breakthrough after pasta breakthrough, and loads of new pastas have been found. There’s lasagne, which is sort of postcards; there’s farfalle, which is moths; there’s rigatoni, which is sewers; there’s conchiglie, which is fists; and, of course, there’s alphabetti, which is a sort of spaghetti, but more alphabetty.
