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Types of Pasta. There are two major classifications: pasta fresca (fresh) and pasta secca (dried). From here, there are more than 400 unique types of pasta: sheets, strips, long strands, cylinders, unique shapes, flavors, and many other local varieties.
Orzo. This small pasta resembles grain (as orzo means barley in Italian), meaning it looks pretty much identical to rice. Puntalette. This is another tiny rice shaped pasta (see pic above) . Punte d'ago. Meaning âneedle topsâ, these are tiny ' pastina â that also resemble grains of rice.