Word: spaghetti
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...Italians, the meat or fish and the cheese we add are enrichment enough," Ronza says. "Spaghetti is still our No. 1 seller, but short pasta is becoming more popular. Some cooks still prefer to break long thick pasta such as ziti or the corkscrew fusilli into small pieces as they drop them into boiling salted water, but most people like them precut...
...Italy, Ronza notes, "you can get big arguments around any family dining table about the shapes of pasta that should go with different sauces." Large flowerets of broccoli, for example, do not work with long strands of linguine or spaghetti because it should be possible to pick up with a fork the solids in the sauce as well as the pasta. Big chunks of vegetables and meat are far better with the little ears (orecchiette) or penne. Finer ingredients, such as peas and minced prosciutto in a creamy sauce, are more suitable to delicate pastas that are twirled. That twirling...
According to Angelo De Angelis, sales manager of Zia Dora, Gerardo di Nola's U.S. importer, the five most popular shapes are spaghetti, the ridged quill- shaped penne, linguine, the fine angel's hair capelli d'angelo and short, mixed pasta shapes used in minestrone...
Macaroni, true to its name, is very much like Mama Leone's spaghetti. The plot starts off solidly enough. Robert Traven (Jack Lemmon) is an American exec on a business trip in Naples, where he had a tour of duty during the Second World War. The stressful monotony of his job has forced him to forget those younger, happier days, until his old friend Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), intrudes on Robert's busy schedule to remind him of old times. Says Antonio to Robert, "Youva become arid, lika desert." Thus begins Antonio's program of re-hydration...
...performances by Lemmon and Mastroianni are solid but not overwhelming. Lemmon's style of acting is so familiar as to be monotonous, like canned spaghetti, and Mastroianni comes nowhere near to being the wild Italian he is advertised as. Instead, he resembles the meatball on Lemmon's noodles...