If you've ever attempted making cacio e pepe at home and ended up with pasta coated in gritty cheese bits instead of a luscious sauce, know that you are not alone. That’s why I ran to the ...

Making a perfect plate of pasta is undoubtedly an art form. However, as a group of researchers recently discovered, producing ...

After analyzing different versions of the cacio e pepe sauce, they found that starch likely has the biggest influence on consistency, The New York Times noted. Pasta water often doesn’t have ...

Italian scientists have drawn from thermodynamic principles to prevent a famous pasta from turning into a gooey mess.

The classic Italian dish known as cacio e pepe only requires three primary ingredients, but achieving its celebrated, creamy consistency is notoriously difficult. Researchers at Germany’s Max ...

GIACOMO BARTOLUCCI, a biophysicist at the University of Barcelona who was among the Italian physicists who wrote a paper detailing their technique for preventing a classic dish, cacio e pepe, from ...

In a new study, a group of researchers says the classic Roman dish can be “scientifically optimized” with the addition of ...