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The Italian word for "soup". Zuppa specifically refers to a type of soup for which the main ingredients are vegetables common to the country.

A name given to an Italian soup that is often served for holidays or events, but is not actually a soup served specifically for weddings.

Refers to pasta that is shaped like tiny letters. They are most often used in soups and are very popular with children.

A very tiny ball of pasta that is used mainly as soup pasta. If acini di pepe is unavailable, orzo may be substituted.

An Italian pasta that consists of a variety of tiny shapes. Each shape generally has its own name but they can all be used for one another.

Tiny star shaped Italian pastas which add a decorative look to soups, salads and side dishes. Stelline is a smaller version of stelle pasta.

A traditional Italian soup that filled with vegetables and pasta which are cooked in a hearty vegetable broth.

Tiny rings of pasta. Anellini is a smaller version of anelli pasta. It is used in various soups and is also suitable for salads.

An egg pasta variety that is shaped like small diamonds and is best used as a soup pasta. Pastina may be substituted if grattoni is unavailable.

Pasta shaped like six spoke cartwheels, which is also known as rotelle. They are used to add a decorative touch to soups, salads and other dishes.

Small rings of pasta that are used in various soups and are also suitable for salads. A smaller version of the pasta is known as anellini.

A pasta variety that is shaped like a tiny conch shell. It is most suitable for soups and pasta salads.

Considered to be a type of pasta originating in North Africa during ancient times, Fregola is very small in size, similar to soup pastas, and is sometimes mistaken as a grain.

Made as a water-based soup, this soup combines meat and pasta in a soothing chicken broth. Chicken Wonton Soup, or Chicken Won Ton as it may also be referred, is a soup that contains cooked chicken meat, thick dumpling-like pasta, celery, spinach or herbs, and flavorings that are added to a chicken stock.

Flat, roughly cut pieces of pasta produced as random shapes from the scraps of pasta being cut and formed for another variety of pasta or pasta that is intentionally cut into a formed shape, similar to a trapezoid or a parallelogram.

Long strands of pasta, resembling fatter versions of spaghetti that have a hollow center running lengthwise through the middle of the pasta.

Wide pasta noodles approximately 2 inches in length that have been slightly twisted to provide a shape similar to a ruffled strand of ribbon.

A traditional Italian vegetable soup originating from the Tuscan region of Italy. Translated, Acqua Cotta means cooked water.

A pasta filled with various ingredients that is made as a circle or square of pasta dough that is folded over and sealed on the open edge to form a half circle or rectangular shape.

A pasta variety that has a mushroom shape and is suitable for use in a variety of soups. A smaller version of this pasta is called funghini.