I still have pasta on the brain after last week’s post about Caputo’s. With over 400 shapes of pasta floating around out there, are you worthy enough to be a pasta insider? Prove yourself with this little puzzle. If you can name all the unusual shapes of pasta pictured below, you can share my marinara any time. Extra points if you can say what each name means in Italian! Hint: The answers appear in alphabetical order.

Don’t click this until you’re ready for the answers…

1. Anelletti (“little rings”)
2. Armoniche (“harmonica”)
3. Bucatini (“pierced”)
4. Campanelle (“little bells”)
5. Cavatappi (“corkscrew”)
6. Corzetti (“little crosses” – This fresh pasta was traditionally stamped with crosses.)
7. Farfalle (“butterflies”)
8. Fiori (“flowers”)
9. Gemelli (“twins”)
10. Lumaconi (“big snails”)
11. Pasta Al Ceppo (“pasta on a stick”)
12. Trottole (“spinning tops”)

Special thanks to www.pasta-recipes-by-italians.com for many of these pasta gems.