Pasta!

Pasta!Back in 1960, a very young Jack Lemmon lusted after Shirley MacLaine in a semicomedy called The Apartment. The movie's big laugh came when boy invited girl to dinner and we saw him adroitly drain the spaghetti through a tennis racket. There's been a lot of tomato sauce under the gastronomical bridge since then, and we've learned that there is more to Italian cooking than meatballs and lasagna.Social revolutions were the norm during the past 25 years, not least in the way Americans came to...