Pici is elevating its menu with the Wagyu Collection, a limited-time celebration of Japan’s most prized beef this April.

Pici is homemade pasta, made without a pasta machine, that's the shape of stubby, pencil-thick pieces. Quick to cook, then drenched in emulsified butter and cheese, and spiked with plenty of black ...

Pantry staples and elbow grease is all that’s required to make pici, a type of pasta widely featured in Tuscan cuisine.

The pasta can be cooked right away, in a large pan of boiling, salted water, or it can be dried out. If you are cooking from fresh, it will take five minutes; if it is dry, it will take 8-10 minutes.

Thick spaghetti-like pici pasta on a white plate with meat sauce on it and a green herb sprig - Antoniotruzzi/Getty Images ...