Discusses the history of pasta and noodle dishes, how they are prepared, and their nutritional value, and provides recipes for chow mein and sweet rigatoni.
An imaginary trip through Pastaland provides Alice with opportunities to explore number concepts and basic arithmetic as she tries to help a white rabbit solve a math problem.
Gino would rather sculpt mice out of dough than sweep the floor in his family's pasta factory, but when the factory falls on hard times, Gino's mice save the day.