Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, Typically, pasta is a noodle made from an unleavened dough of a durum wheat flour mixed with water or eggs and formed into sheets or various shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. It can also be made with flour from other cereals or grains. Pastas may be divided into two broad categories, dried and fresh . Pasta is generally a simple dish, a first course in Italy. basic pasta dough has been made mostly of wheat flour or semolina, with wheat used predominantly in the South of Italy and soft wheat in the North.