The Biggest Mistake Americans Make When Cooking Pasta, According to Giovanni Rana — Pasta Playbook

You've been making pasta for yourself since college or maybe even high school or earlier, right? You probably have a million (or at least a dozen) pasta dishes in your repertoire that you can make without even thinking about it. What if you've been making one big mistake this whole time, though?

I got to go to Italy to meet Giovanni Rana (you might recognize his face from his pasta packaging, which can be found in the refrigerated section at the grocery store) to see how the sausage, er, pasta is made.

I asked him, through a translator, to tell me the biggest mistake Americans make when it comes to cooking pasta at home. The translator wasn't even finished with the question before he had his response ready.

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