American and Italian pasta salads may share roots, but you only have to look at a plate of American pasta salad next to what Italians call "pasta fredda" (cold pasta) to see the ways in which they ...

Scooping a spoon of lukewarm macaroni salad — glooped in mayonnaise, studded with unidentifiable vegetables — onto a paper plate at a picnic or barbecue feels like a quintessentially North American ...