From show 1 Pasta is the favorite national dish of Italy where it is cut into a variety of uniquely named shapes.
Fresh pasta is a flour, egg and water combination that creates a soft dough.
This dough is rolled thin, either by hand or by a hand-crank pasta machine. The dough can be cut into many shapes with many different names, such as spaghetti, lasagna and linguini. The shapes can even be cut to the maker's own design. As people who know pasta will tell you, the size of the egg and the moisture content of the flour will determine exactly how much flour is needed. Break the egg into the volcano and add water.