Object of the Week

The Hottest New Pasta Shape Was Born From a Podcast

Bucatini is so 2020

Rob Walker
Marker
Published in
4 min readMar 25, 2021

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Enlarged view of a new type of pasta called “cascatelli.” The pasta has a U-shape with a ribbed outer edge.
Photo illustration: Save As/Medium; Source: Scott Gordon Bleicher/Dan Pashman

Object of the Week is a column exploring the objects a culture obsesses over and what that reveals about us.

The 21st century has been a time of constant technical innovation — and a time for ridiculously overthinking food. These seemingly unrelated meta-trends…

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