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But the Il Mulino classics remain, too: capellini with mushrooms, guanciale, peas, vodka cream and black truffle; linguine alla vongole; mushroom ravioli with champagne truggle cream.—Connie Ogle
march 11, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026 Start with thinner noodles like capellini, and follow the preparation instructions for best results.—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026 Hawaii and New Mexico are the only states to favor angel hair pasta, or capellini.—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025 Yesterday’s pangrams were appliance, capellini, pelican and pinnacle.—David Leonhardt, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025 For Garten, the recipe’s biggest selling point is the capellini, which, according to her, takes only three minutes to cook.—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2020 The first dish out of the gate was a beauty: a rope of cold capellini bound in a hazelnut dressing and garnished with crisp sea asparagus, bits of preserved lemon, a whisper of nori and downy edible flowers.—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020 By night, the café transitions to Le Tachinomi Desu, a standing-room-only bar with cold capellini and caviar small plates, to be paired with natural wines and premium sake and whiskey.—Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2019
Word History
Etymology
Italian, plural of capellino, diminutive of capello hair, from Latin capillus