Mostaccioli also works well in a pasta bake. Now take your rigatoni with its crafted ridges. This is best served with chunkier sauces where the grooves invite the sauce to cling to the outside.

But there's a very close family member snagging its own portion of pasta praise, namely the very similar mostaccioli from Southern Italy. Though the two can be used interchangeably in recipes ...

Sacred Heart-Griffin High School’s annual mostaccioli dinner takes “Head Noodle” Mike Ryan back to his days as a teenage troublemaker. As a freshman in 1971, Ryan recalls acting out in ...