And do you always have to use a fancy machine to create the simplest spaghetti? We turned to Rosario Del Nero, chef and culinary expert with the National Pasta Association, and Jenna Raymond, food ...

In 1978, I purchased my first pasta machine at a tag sale in New Canaan, Conn. It was a small, steel, manually operated Atlas machine, the type that clamped onto a breadboard or the edge of a counter.