Possible Clues:

• Pasta noodle
• Food with ridges
• Pasta restricted, in short supply
• Tubular carb source
• Food whose name means 'feathers'
• Pasta whose name means 'quills'
• Pasta in the shape of tubes
• Writer's outwardly no-nonsense pasta
• Writer goes to point-to-point from Italian restaurant
• Tubes to serve