October 25th is World Pasta Day

World Pasta Day is the day that people across the globe celebrate the culinary treat that is the unleavened dough molded into funny little shapes and boiled to produce pasta. A staple food of Italian cuisine, first officially referenced in Sicily, in 1154, pasta is one of the favorite foods consumed worldwide.

There are over 600 shapes of pasta known to mankind, and their names are descriptive of their shapes. Spaghetti (‘cord’), vermicelli (‘little worms’), rotini (‘spirals’), fusili (‘spindles’), tortellini (‘little cakes’), linguini (‘little tongues’), conchiglie (‘shells’), fettucine (‘small ribbons’), penne (‘quills’) and capellini (‘fine hairs’) are the savoury little goodies that are essential to any pantry.

World Pasta Day is celebrated on the October 25th of each year, and the idea behind it was sparked by the World Pasta Congress in 1995. If you’d like to celebrate Pasta Day at home, gather around the table, alongside your family members, share spaghetti and meatballs and speak loudly to one another, possibly even gesticulating with a finger kiss, as if to say ‘Eccellente!’.