There are more than 600 pasta shapes produced worldwide.
The average person in Italy eats more than 51 pounds of pasta every year. The average person in North America eats about 15-1/2 pounds of pasta per year.
October is National Pasta month
Consumers enjoy pasta for dinner more than 40 times a year (approximately once a week).
To cook one billion pounds of pasta, you would need 2,021,452,000 gallons of water - enough to fill nearly 75,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.
SOURCE: http://www.kitchenhelpfulhints.com/pasta/pasta-facts.htm
The average person in Italy eats more than 51 pounds of pasta every year. The average person in North America eats about 15-1/2 pounds of pasta per year.
October is National Pasta month
Consumers enjoy pasta for dinner more than 40 times a year (approximately once a week).
To cook one billion pounds of pasta, you would need 2,021,452,000 gallons of water - enough to fill nearly 75,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.
SOURCE: http://www.kitchenhelpfulhints.com/pasta/pasta-facts.htm
Estimate of World Pasta Production
A Fun Pasta Song!
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