When it comes to preparing something as straightforward as pasta—a food consisting of only three ingredients—every detail ...

When you’re boiling water for pasta, throwing a bit of salt into the water can help it boil a little bit faster–if only by a ...

If you have been adding salt to your pasta water to make it boil faster or tossing pasta at the wall to check if it's done, you are not alone. These are just a couple of the many pasta myths that ...

Crawfish tails, Parmesan cheese, butter, and pasta water combine into a silky pasta sauce on a warmed platter in this New Orleans pasta dish.

If you've ever tossed a generous pinch of salt into your pasta pan's water for flavor or as an attempt to make it boil faster, you've likely ended up with a whitish ring of deposits inside the pan.

Physicist Mathieu Souzy of the University Twente was enjoying an evening of pasta and board games with several colleagues when the conversation turned to how adding salt to a pasta pot to make it boil ...