The result is cascatelli, a short, flat, ruffled pasta three years in the making. Food. For Pasta Lovers Bored By Spaghetti, There's A New Short, Wavy, Sauce-Holding Shape.

Pasta, a food darling of both Italy and America, comes in hundreds of shapes — more than 300 by some counts. There are long strands, round and flat, thin and wide, and twisty, ruffled, tube, and ...