Nonna vs Pasta - What's the difference?
nonna | pasta |
(dialectal) grandmother
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 29, author=Alex Witchel, title=Borscht: What Would Nana Say?, work=New York Times
, passage=An article last month in The Daily News talked about Enoteca Maria, a restaurant in Staten Island that has no professional chef, just a rotating roster of eight nonnas , or grandmothers, from different regions of Italy. }}
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(uncountable) (particularly in Italian cooking ) Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form, it is typically boiled for eating.
(uncountable) A dish or serving of pasta.
(countable) A type of pasta.
As a noun nonna
is (dialectal) grandmother.As a verb pasta is
to claim, to state.nonna
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