What The World Needs Now: Imprintable Pasta

Whether a new technology will change pasta making forever remains to be seen, but the recently unveiled ability to imprint pictures on noodles is capturing a lot of attention. The Pretty Pasta Company of Grand Blanc, Mich., launched with three key ideas: sketching images for a customer’s pasta, adding photos, and personalizing noodles with text and images. The resulting products are completely edible, and boiling for 13 to 15 minutes does not distort the images. Company owner Shawn Murray-Laursen hopes to expand on her innovative pasta technology by offering flavored noodles: bubblegum, blueberry and key lime Moroccan spice.