Nobody can explain how to cook a real Italian pasta better than me, since I’m from Italy. Through my experience here in the USA, I could see how Americans make pasta. When I saw how pasta has been cooked by Americans, I started to ask myself, “How can they eat it?” Though after I tried it, it was not as bad as I thought It would be. I have some advice to cook pasta better, or at least so it tastes like an Italian pasta.

First of all, pasta must always be cooked until it is “ al dente”, meaning cooked, but not to the point of becoming sticky. Not everyone likes pasta cooked the same, some prefer it more soft  than “hard”. The procedures to follow are: fill a pot almost full of water.  When the water starts to boil, add salt, then toss pasta into the pot. However, the pasta has a better taste if a good sauce is added on it. For example, in Italy, we put a different kind of sauce on each shape of pasta. White pasta, which means without sauce, can be good anyway just by adding some oil and cheese. Many Americans, or people from other countries do not like the real pasta, because it has a different taste from their “ pasta.” However, any Italian will tell you, our way of cooking pasta is the best.