American invented a new type of pasta named "Cascatelli"

The American host of the popular food podcast “The Sporkful”, Dan Pashman, has invented a new short pasta called Cascatelli. The host's invention was born right inside his podcast, where he decided to develop a series - consisting of five episodes - called "Mission Impastable" and in which Pashman set to work to create a new pasta format . Cascatelli are slightly larger than the average of short pasta; it is a sort of curved tube decorated with flounces on both sides and reminiscent of the mafaldine (pasta to which Pashman was actually inspired, as he himself admitted). His was also born as a playful battle against spaghetti, which the presenter defines as simple “tubes”. “Spaghetti is fine. I'll eat all the pasta you put in front of me if I'm hungry. But it's just a tube - Pashman told CBS News -. It doesn't do much and I just think we can do better ”. It all started with a trip to North Dakota, where the main producers of wheat for pasta in the USA are concentrated. This is ...