At first glance, it's easy to assume they're identical -- until you examine the outer texture. Traditional penne is cloaked ...

penne is one of the most recognizable pasta shapes. While you can find smooth penne in stores, the ridged version is more widely used thanks to its ability to attract and hold on to sauces.

Though ziti and penne are both on the shorter side (as types of pasta go) and tubular in shape, there's more to the ...

Mostaccioli, on the other hand, is a smooth pasta with no stripes or ridges. Further, mostaccioli pasta is also known as penne lisce. "Lisce" is Italian for smooth, which makes penne lisce ...