http://www.ilovepasta.org/index.html, the home of the National Pasta Association. "Cooking tips":http://www.ilovepasta.org/cooking.html, "recipe ideas":http://www.ilovepasta.org/recipes.html, "beautiful drawings of pasta types":http://www.ilovepasta.org/shapes.html (pictured above), there's even a "kid's corner":http://www.ilovepasta.org/funfacts.html and a "press area":http://www.ilovepasta.org/news.html with interesting pasta news. Some interesting pasta facts to whet your palate: * _Legend has it that noodles were first made by 13th century German bakers who fashioned dough into symbolic shapes, such as swords, birds and stars, which were baked and served as bread.In the 13th century, the Pope set quality standards for pasta._ * _To cook one billion pounds of pasta, you would need 2,021,452,000 gallons of water - enough to fill nearly 75,000 Olympic-size swimming pools._ * _Approximately 2.75 million tons of pasta is made in Italy each year, while the United States produces nearly 1.9 million tons per year._ * _There are more than 600 pasta shapes produced worldwide._