In Italy, meals signify quality time spent together. Crafted to be shared, this vegetarian baked rigatoni is the perfect holiday pasta dish to share with wine, laughter and love.

From food writer and cookbook author extraordinaire, we're proud to present Katie Workman's holiday favorite. Using rigatoni instead of flat noodles and dollops of fresh ricotta, this gorgeous holiday pasta recipe is like an unstructured lasagna, only better.

Rich, peppery and simple, pasta alla gricia abounds in flavor. With just 5 ingredients, it highlights the key to Italian cooking: great ingredients and precise technique.

Velvety smooth and luscious, this creamy pumpkin Ditalini pasta is everything you could want from a bowl of comforting pasta. The perfect fall recipe, savor every mouthful of autumnal bliss.

Ah, lasagna. With layers of gorgeous sauce, creamy bechamel and savory cheese held together by perfect noodles, lasagna is the epitome of Italian comfort food. Made with spinach, broccolini and fennel pesto, this green lasagna will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about lasagna.

Adding roasty, umami-rich depth, Jerusalem artichokes are the star of the show in this bucatini pasta recipe. With punchy Italian Nepitella and earthy Oregano Flowers thrown into the mix, this is a simple pasta recipe you'll want to keep in your back pocket for your weeknight rotation.

It's artichoke season in Italy, which means that the streets of Rome are filled with the heavenly smell of fried, sauted and raw artichoke. Tossed into a fresh and vevlety sweet pepper pesto, artichoke is the heart of this delicious penne dish.

Using briny squid ink spaghetti pasta as the base, this riff on a classic carbonara brings the oceanic flavors of the sea together with the grounding flavors of our earth in a symphony of rich umami flavor. Freshly ground pink pepper corns add just the right finishing touch of floral notes to brighten this delicious pasta.