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The innovative James Beard Award-winning podcaster who changed the way you think about pasta shapes with his invention of the viral sensation cascatelli now does the same for pasta sauces in this fun and charmingly obsessive cookbook, which includes a foreword from bestselling author J. Kenji López-Alt. When Sporkful podcast host Dan Pashman launched cascatelli, a new pasta shape he invented that he designed to hold tons of sauce, stay on the fork, and be incredibly satisfying to bite into, it went viral and was named one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of the Year. VICE called him "a modern pasta legend." But as Dan was flooded with pictures of what people were making with his pasta, he was disappointed to see how limited the dishes were: tomato sauce, meat sauce, mac and cheese, over and over.
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Dan Pashman is the creator and host of the two-time James Beard and Webby Award-winning podcast which he says is not for foodies, it's for eaters. He's also the creator and host of Cooking Channel's In 2021 Dan launched the new pasta shape cascatelli, a viral sensation that named one of the Best Inventions of the Year. The story of Dan's three-year quest to create cascatelli was told in podcast's series, which the named one of the 10 Best Podcasts of 2021. Cascatelli is now in more than 3000 stores across America. In early 2023 Dan received international media attention when he launched two more pastas - obscure Italian shapes called vesuvio and quattrotini - that he produces with the artisanal pasta company Sfoglini, who also make the original version of cascatelli.
