Was Spaghetti invented/discovered in China & taken to Italy?!
The Chinese were using rice flour. In Italy they used semolina, because that is what they had...
Answers: Pasta and noodles were invented in China. "Spaghetti" is what the Italians came up with when Marco Polo returned to Italy and explained what he had seen in "The Orient".
The Chinese were using rice flour. In Italy they used semolina, because that is what they had...
yes, but by the time it arrived it had spoiled. So they just went by the recipe instead.
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No, some had attributed the invention of spaghetti to the Chinese but it is generally believed that spaghetti is Italian in origin.
"Spaghetti" was not invesnted in China. But the noddles did. When traders brought back Mein noddles to Italy it caught on as Spaghetti. So while Spaghetti did not originate in China the basic idea did.
That's what I've heard them say on Food Network in the past...
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Yes, Thin Kaboudit is right on.
It was found a few years ago an ancient fossilized bowl of noodles dating back much farther than when Italians claimed to have invented "noodles."
Italian pasta predates Marco Polo. The idea that he bought the idea for pasta back from the far east is apocryphal.
Given it's such a basic food the probability is that variations were being made in both Italy and China without either nation influencing the other. Though given China has an older culture they may have been making noodles first.