Lar nard ($8.95), with its broad, fat stir-fried rice noodles, Chinese broccoli and chicken or beef, was a pasta lover's dream dish.

Also enchanting pasta lovers was a plate of angel-hair ringed with jumbo shrimp and festooned with julienned vegetables and slices of Portobello mushrooms.

A better choice for pasta lovers is cappelini with clam and mussel sauce.

The menu can satisfy everyone from vegetarians to carnivores, pasta lovers to Mexican food enthusiasts.

For pasta lovers, angel-hair pasta with chicken strips, tomato, romano, garlic and cream was deftly done, light and delicious.

At first glance it is a pasta lover's dream: four dishes presented in a large trough.

Dr. Rolls's findings are good news for pasta lovers, who may be avoiding this food in response to the current mania for low-carb diets.

Beyond that, Buitoni helps Nestle expand in what Mr. Maucher, a self-confessed pasta lover, sees as a cuisine of the future.

The package calls the Twirl-O-Ghetti pasta fork "the ultimate gift for the pasta lover."

The exhausted pasta lovers were almost ready to resort to chopsticks, but they decided to give Twirl-O-Ghetti one more shot.