Making great pasta isn't as simple as boiling water. Here are seven common myths and mistakes made when cooking the Italian ...

Forget everything you think you know about cooking pasta. Simply Recipes / Photo Illustrations by Sarah Crowder / Laurel Randolph There are few times in life when the clock seems to stop.

Some Italians swear that breaking pasta is bad luck, while others say it’s just bad cooking form. As for how much water to use, Schend had some more advice for at-home chefs. “You want to make ...

This recipe from Lucia in Dallas relies on a very starchy pasta cooking water to make the creamy pasta sauce. At Lucia, the pasta water is reused throughout the night, so it is already starchy ...

A few weeks ago, a reader in our weekly live cooking chat asked how to fix marinara sauce that leaks water onto the plate after they add it to pasta. At the time, my mind focused on the sauce itself.

Two years as a private chef in NYC has taught me three things: (1) people will pay a small fortune for homemade pasta, (2) everyone wants to learn how to cook, but most people are terrified to ...