Among them was a hot turkey soup given more body with the addition of orzo, the small rice-shaped pasta.

Orzo, the rice-shaped pasta, is dressed simply with olive oil, basil and toasted pine nuts.

This rice-shaped pasta is appearing on many menus, and no one is quite sure why.

To further muddy the waters, the Italians make what they call riso, a rice-shaped pasta, and orzetto, a very thin orzo that cooks in five minutes.

Chopped coarsely in this recipe, they expertly bridge the aromatic onion and garlic with the stubby rice-shaped pasta.

The orzo recipe is loosely based on a Greek dish using the rice-shaped pasta.

Orzo: This rice-shaped pasta works great in soups and salads.

Orzo actually is a rice-shaped pasta that has become increasingly popular.

Complementing the duck, and a pleasant change from rice, was a portion of orzo, a rice-shaped pasta.

Orzo, the Greek rice-shaped pasta, appears to have become the newest pasta fad.