The names of the different types of pasta seem complicated but, if we translate them, they make all the sense in the world. Today's pasta is called bucatini simply because buco is hole. They are actually like thick spaghetti but with a hole in the center.
We are going to prepare them at the Versuviana, with a delicious tomato sauce that we will have ready in about 20 minutes.
The first thing we will do is cook the pasta. While the water boils and then we carry out the cooking we can prepare our delicious homemade sauce.
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