George Shirley wrote:

>
> Curious minds and all that, is pasta salad some sort of Midwestern
> "thang?" I never heard or saw, or ate, any of it until we neighbors move
> into Texas from the Midwest, somewhere up around southern Canada is
> where they were from and they ate all sorts of weird stuff. I got used
> to the stuff but really don't have a preference for it to this day. But,
> then, I don't like corned beef and cabbage either.


When we lived in RI there was an Italian deli in Westerly
that made a delicious pasta salad with the tri-colored
rotini, chopped red onion, and garlicky mayo. They
occasionally added finely diced red and green peppers or
marinated artichoke hearts.

Around 1984 I found a recipe (James Beard, I think) for
Pasta Primavera which was some kind of noodles,
lightly sauteed onion, mushrooms and zucchini and chopped
parsley with an oil-and-vinegar and garlic dressing.
He also had a nice one with well-browned Italian sausage and
chopped parsley.

gloria p