And although glitzy pasta shops have covered New York City like locusts, not one of them turns out a more tender fresh ravioli than Raffetto's on West Houston Street.

Called "Sleeping Beauties," it will use parents and babies gathered through fliers posted in pasta shops and the like to tell a tale that is ultimately meant to tear at people's souls.

In the historic centre of Genoa there are still traditional pasta shops where the corzetti are handmade and where they make these tools to make them with.

But at a pasta shop a few blocks away, the owner, Neil Russo, felt that nostalgia was definitely not what it used to be.

G Map A top-quality produce market, with several organic- produce stores (including an organic butcher), a fresh pasta shop, bountiful delis and a food court for grazing on the move.

A few doors down, DINO'S , a pasta shop (1653 Second Avenue), offers an early evening tapa of olives, cheese, crackers and dips.

Now, 15 years later, the pasta is still being made by hand, but it's made in pasta shops by groups of women working together.

Did Ms. Ferraro's son get an extraordinarily favorable lease from a crime-related figure for a new pasta shop?

X Map Fish-shaped ravioli paired with salmon creme is just one of the creative offerings at this popular pasta shop.

Before beginning his film career, Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto, Ontario.