Opening to the page describing classic fusilli, I feel obliged to add a parenthetical note: none of our pasta types comes in uniform shapes and sizes, meaning that each sample of penne is unique, as is each morsel of maccheroncini, strozzapreti, pennette, rigatoni, etc…

 

But the most irregular in form are the fusilli with spirals as exquisite as this pasta’s soul. Still, they cook uniformly, the spirals and the soul, and sauces wrap happily around them…A pasta of great success, from Piero Selvaggio on down!