Does anybody know the origin of spaghetti?!
Answers: im doing a report for my language class and i need to know the origin of spaghetti. does anybody know?
While many believe that spaghetti (or even pasta in some accounts) originated in China (where long thin noodles have a lengthy history), some now assert that the reading of a lost Marco Polo manuscript which lead to this belief, was in fact an inaccurate Latin translation. Historically people in Italy ate pasta in the form of gnocchi-like dumplings – 'pasta fresca' eaten as soon as it was prepared. It has now been asserted that the Arabs who populated Southern Italy (around the 12th Century) were the first to develop the innovation of working pasta from grain into thin long forms, capable of being dried out and stored for months or years prior to consumption (see Peter Robb's Midnight in Sicily pp 94-96 for details). Legend has it that Cicero, the famous Roman orator was fond of "laganum", an ancient tagliatelle. (see The Essential Pasta Cookbook, Murdoch Books, p.5). Some even say that even the ancient Greeks were fond of pasta. The Saracens invaded southern Italy in the 9th. century and had occupied Sicily for 200 hundred years. The Saracens were originally from North Africa. Some say that it was the Saracens who were responsible for the evolution of pasta in Italy. Pasta, although now being associated with the Italians as a whole, has its origin in the South. The popularity of pasta spread to whole of Italy after the setting up of pasta factories way back in the 19th. century and thus, this had enabled the mass production of pasta for the Italian market. (see The Italian Kitchen Bible by Kate Whiteman, Jeni Wright and Angela Boggiano, (Hermes House) p.12, 13)
I think they nicked it from the Chinese (noodles).
china
well the chinese have their noodles but spaghetti are italian i dont care what anyone else says
Italy.
DUHH!!!
haha just kidding but I think its Italy...
Italy or maybe China...