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Fettuccine is a type of pasta popular in Roman cuisine. It is descended from the extremely thin of the Renaissance, but is a flat, thick pasta traditionally made with egg and flour (usually one egg for every of flour). At about , it is wider and thicker than, but similar to, the tagliatelle typical of Bologna.

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Food.name
Fettuccine
Food.image
Fettucine1.JPG
Food.image_size
250px
Food.caption
Fresh, uncooked fettuccine
Food.alternate_name
(wider), (narrower)
Food.country
Italy
Food.type
Pasta
Food.main_ingredient
Durum wheat flour, eggs

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Fettuccine is a type of pasta popular in Roman cuisine. It is descended from the extremely thin of the Renaissance, but is a flat, thick pasta traditionally made with egg and flour (usually one egg for every of flour). At about , it is wider and thicker than, but similar to, the tagliatelle typical of Bologna.

The terms ' and ' are often used as synonyms for this pasta, but the former term is more precisely used for wider (about ) and the latter for narrower (about ) forms of the same pasta.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fettuccine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.