All too often in Japan, "pasta" means "spaghetti". Italians, however, eat literally hundreds of different shapes and styles of pasta, consuming around 30 kilograms per person per year! On the Mario i sentieri menu at the moment you can find pappardelle with a wild boar ragout, and that's a particularly Tuscan dish (it's also often served with a hare ragout). Pappardelle is a handmade, long, flat pasta, and the name comes from the Italian verb "pappare", which means "to gulp down". A perfect dish for a cold winter evening!