While scholars attribute the early origins of noodles to ancient China, it was in the Mediterranean that the dried pasta we know and love today was refined. Pasta is one of the world’s most beloved comfort foods and a wonderful blank culinary canvas for an almost endless array of warm, baked and cold preparations. Derived from the Latin word “penna,” meaning “pen,” Penne Rigate are hollow cylindrical-shaped pasta noodles with external ridges and diagonal openings at both ends to mimic the tip of a fountain pen.
