Pasta is sublime in its simplicity: you truly need nothing more than flour, water, and your own hands. But just because it can be that minimalistic doesn’t mean it needs to be. There is a deep, ...

In 1978, I purchased my first pasta machine at a tag sale in New Canaan, Conn. It was a small, steel, manually operated Atlas machine, the type that clamped onto a breadboard or the edge of a counter.