Pasta comes in all shapes and sizes. The tiniest shapes are often used in soups, long ribbons or

strands with sauces, and tubes and fanciful shapes in casseroles and pasta salads. Some shapes

are large enough to be stuffed and baked, and others, like ravioli, come already stuffed.

Pasta normally is white-yellow, but other colors exist. Red pastas can be colored with beets or its

juice, green pasta with spinach, orange or red with tomatoes, and etc.

Below an overview of the most common pasta types and their synonyms.