Pairing · La Genovese
The best shapes for genovese
Naples' onion and beef sauce, cooked to a bronze cream, no tomato. Despite the name it is Neapolitan, and it belongs on ziti and candele broken by hand.
CandeleTubes
The wide round bore is the whole point.

PaccheriTubes
A cooked pacchero rarely stays a cylinder.

ZitiTubes
Ziti is a smooth, even-walled tube, so it slips past thin sauces and asks for ones with real body.
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