The Monterey Pasta Company produces and markets premium quality gourmet pasta & pasta sauces using natural ingredients. PSTA markets & sells through grocery, club stores and nat'l distributors.
  While PSTA has had many problems in the past and has suffered substantial losses, it now seems that the new management team, headed by the new CEO Kenneth Steel, is poised to turn this company around.
  Insiders have also been accumulating stock.
                     04/17/97                     Select Federal Filings Newswires                     (Copyright (c) 1997, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)                                          FORM 4 
                     ISSUER: MONTEREY PASTA CO.                    SYMBOL:  PSTA  
                     FILER: STEEL KENNETH A                    TITLE: Officer and Director                    PURCHASED: 03/28/97 155,000 1.35                    OWNERSHIP: 185,000 
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                     ISSUER: MONTEREY PASTA CO.                    SYMBOL:  PSTA  
                     FILER: STEEL ROBERT F                    TITLE: Director                    PURCHASED: 03/28/97 150,000 1.35                    OWNERSHIP: 150,000 
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                     FILER: TUNSTALL VAN                    TITLE: Director                    PURCHASED: 03/28/97 25,000 1.35                    OWNERSHIP: 25,000   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   
                     ISSUER: MONTEREY PASTA CO.                    SYMBOL:  PSTA  
                     FILER: SERBIN JAMES S                    TITLE: Chief Financial Officer                    PURCHASED: 03/31/97 5,000 1.35                    OWNERSHIP: 5,000 
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------                            EARNINGS PER SHARE                               (U.S. Dollars)  QUARTERS           1993         1994          1995            1996     MAR               -0.01         0.01          0.03           -0.03
    JUN                0.00        -0.03         -0.04           -0.01
    SEP                0.05        -0.03          0.02           -0.68
    DEC                0.02        -0.17         -0.13           -0.18*
   TOTAL               0.06        -0.22         -0.12           -0.90
   FIRST Q results are in! biz.yahoo.com
  losses were cut down again. > -.05 
  At the current rate, PSTA should be profitable next Q |