Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? (2020)
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I am glad to report that Bucatini abound (2025) and also that the Mafaldine shortage that I encountered has been remedied.
For those unfamiliar with specialty pasta, I highly recommend Mafaldine [0] (a kind of skinny lasagna, in the form of a noodle, and Fusili Bucati lunghi, the very long corkscrew pasta. Not the small and fat "setscrews" you find in pasta salads, "corti" also called rotini.
Comparison of pasta shapes [2]
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[0] https://www.the-pasta-project.com/mafaldine-mafalda-reginett...
[1] https://www.bigboyrecipe.com/en/post/the-best-fusilli-lunghi...
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[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pasta