As someone who's cooked and eaten their way through more bowls of pasta than I care to admit, let me tell you: Bucatini is the noodle you didn't know you needed. Its shape is a revelation ...

Related story 14 Martha Stewart Recipes That Are Packed With Spring's Best Ingredients For the uninitiated, bucatini is a round pasta noodle that has a hole running down its center to soak up sauce.

If you've never sunk your teeth into an al dente strand of bucatini, boy are you missing out. While not one of the most obscure pasta shapes, it is certainly underrepresented, at least amongst ...