Garganelli pasta is a pasta shape, similar to penne. However it is more "crude" looking and is actually made by rolling a small square of pasta into a tube shape, and drying. You can actually see the flap of pasta that was rolled onto its self.

Just about any small or narrow pasta can be substituted for spaghetti in most recipes, although the result might be significantly different from the original. Some easily substituted pastas would be fettuccine, vermicelli and angel hair pasta.

There are different types of Italian food. They arecategorized as appetizers, main dishes, side dishes, desserts, and holiday dishes. Some common dishes are baked zucchini, tiny tomatoes and mozzarella, prosciutto and persimmon bundles, pasta, roast chicken, flank roll, summertime salad, roast bell peppers, hot potato salad, almond cookies, and marmalade pie. I learned about this from: http:/www.flavorsandmemories.com which has a lot of Italian food names along with recipes. There is an option to buy the cookbook also. Hope it will help you.