Dan Pashman of The Sporkful podcast creates a new pasta shape : Planet Money : NPR

There are dozens of different pasta shapes. But for Dan Pashman, host of The Sporkful podcast and pastaficionado, none of them are perfect. That’s why, three years ago, Dan embarked on a journey to create the ideal pasta. This meant designing the pasta shape himself — then figuring out how to manufacture and sell thousands of pounds of it.
— Read on www.npr.org/2021/03/19/979274990/the-new-shape-of-pasta