For centuries, it was thought that Marco Polo brought pasta from China to Italy.?!
Answers:
Marco Polo did no such thing.
Many Italian scholars maintain that the ancient Etruscans made pasta, but other scholars propose other theories, and there is no general agreement as to its origins. But all agree that the Italians had been making it long, long before Marco Polo returned from China (which was in the 13th century, not the 15th). It is not impossible that the Chinese invented it, as they did so many other things. If so, however, it would have come to Italy centuries earlier as part of the silk or spice trade that had gone on since Roman times at least.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/07/garden…
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