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fusilli
corkscrew shaped pasta
The name apparently is derived from the twisty patterns on the barrels of rifles (fucile). Sometimes they are hollow (fusilli bucati or fusilli col buco); sometimes they are extra long (fusilli lunghi), even the length of spaghetti (fusilli calabrese or napoletani) or wound extra tight (fusilli stretti). Big fat ones are fusilloni.
Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls
Image by Nana B Agyei