A cup of pasta doesn't even compute, since the mass of the pasta will depend so much on the exact shape in question. You can't substitute a cup of dried taglia

A cup of pasta doesn't even compute, since the mass of the pasta will depend so much on the exact shape in question. You can't substitute a cup of dried tagliatelle (huge "balls of yarn") for a cup of risoni (rice-sized grains of pasta) and be happy after eating that meal. :)