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Article: Spring for pasta - but hold the tomato sauce.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
PLYMOUTH, MASS. -- Pasta sustains whole countries and, along with pizza, fuels countless thousands of American college students. It's as universal as the stars, a vehicle for hundreds of sauces and fillings, and it comes in more sizes and shapes than '60s hairdos. Italy claims more than 300 pasta varieties, an estimate some consider conservative.
Although humble by nature, pasta can be elevated to sublime heights. In the United States, it's too often overcooked, drowned in some prepared, commercial, tomato-based sauce, dumped unceremoniously onto a cold plate, and then dusted with ...