There are novel selections, like trenette, a long thin lemon pasta tossed with sardines and Sicilian oranges ($15.95).

Either method forms a thick pasta, slightly thinner than a common pencil.

After all the cooking the thin pasta is still firm.

For example, a cold salad of thin pasta, confit of duck and chicken breast in a lemon vinaigrette sounded irresistible.

Repeat with the remaining dough until you have four sheets of thin pasta.

It's just sheets of very thin fresh pasta, called silk handkerchiefs, draped on a plate and streaked with a vibrant pesto.

I wish the sauce were not used over capellini, a thin pasta that is almost impossible not to overcook (but it was).

Other types of long, thin pasta, like vermicelli, linguine or taglierini, may be substituted.

I used vermicelli, a very thin pasta, but you can use another pasta - anything from macaroni to alphabet noodles - if you prefer.

Pan-browned scallops, however, were combined with thin Chinese pasta in a biting, over-vinegared sauce.