Related Clues:

• Writer's outwardly no-nonsense pasta
• The writer is about to describe diner perhaps addicted to food at trattoria?
• Cook a lot topping Italy's pasta
• Tubular source of carbs
• Bolted-down tubes
• Entr?e often baked
• Pasta that sounds like two letters
• Cap with a feather, to Yankee Doodle
• Pasta in wide tubes
• Olive Garden option
• Cylinder-shaped pasta
• Pasta shaped like a tube, that's like a cylinder only without tops
• Short, ribbed, tubular pasta
• Port tends to be very heavy drink in the middle course at Italian restaurant
• Edible rods