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pasta
/ˈpæstə/
Definition
1
A staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, formed into sheets or other shapes, and then cooked by boiling.
2
Colloquial term for a generic, reliable, or comforting meal that one relies on when they are too tired to actually cook.
Examples
La vita è troppo breve per mangiare pasta scotta.
Life is too short to eat overcooked pasta.
Ho tentato di cucinare un pasto gourmet, ma alla fine ho solo aperto un pacco di pasta.
I attempted to cook a gourmet meal, but in the end, I just opened a box of pasta.
La pasta è l'unico linguaggio d'amore che tutti capiscono senza bisogno di traduzioni.
Pasta is the only love language everyone understands without needing a translation.