Sex up spaghetti

This selection highlights the best ingredients and recipes for cooking with long pastas such as spaghetti, tagliatelle, capellini, vermicelli and linguine.

Spaghetti, the classic dried pasta shape is Italy's favourite dish; Italians eat an average of 28kg/62lb each per year. Perhaps the most widely cooked spaghetti recipe is spaghetti Carbonara. English cooks will be surprised to learn that Bolognese sauce is traditionally served with tagliatelle in Italy.