Italy's Barilla, and Turkey's Migros Ticaret supermarket chain teamed up to produce a half-tonne box of penne pasta, measuring 1-and-a-half meters high and well over a meter wide, which sells for 999 Turkish lira ($560), for charity , setting the world record for the Biggest pasta box, according to the World Record Academy.

Thousands of participants under the supervision of Chef Su, gathered at a square in Weishan county of Dali Bai autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Yunnan province, made a 1,704-meter-long stretch of noodle within 25 minutes - setting the new world record for the Longest handmade noodle.

Italian restaurant Buca di Beppo in California filled a swimming pool repurposed as a pasta bowl measuring 15' in diameter by 3.5' high with more than 13,786 pounds of pasta and 120 gallons of sauce -setting the new world record for the Largest Bowl of Pasta.

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Chef Marco Ragnacci in Bankok, Thailand, worked non-stop over a period of six hours and twenty minutes to create his new world record of 422 sauces during a world record breaking event at Central Food Hall, 7th floor of CentralWorld Plaza. Chef Marco Ragnacci created his sauces with dark and white chocolate, Mascapone cheese and Parma ham or with gold foil, caviar, Gorgonzola cheese with pear, artichoke and almond, and a host of sauces involving different varieties of seafood.