Did china invent pizza and spaghetti?!
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"For much of the 20th century, many Chinese erroneously believed that pizza was an evolution of Chinese green onion pancake, brought back to Italy by Marco Polo. Chinese opinions on pizza's invention often run along lines like this:
Marco Polo missed green onion pancakes so much that when he was back in Italy, he tried to find chefs willing to make the pancake for him. One day, he managed to meet a chef from Naples at a friend's dinner party and persuaded him to try recreating the dish. After half a day without success, Marco Polo suggested the filling be put at the top rather than inside the dough. The change, by chance, created a dish praised by everyone at the party. The chefs returned to Naples and improvised by adding cheese and other ingredients and formed today's pizza.
The belief has since been dissipated in places like Hong Kong where people have gained awareness of the existence of focaccia, but is still extremely prevalent in some Chinese settlements such as mainland China.
The innovation which gave us the particular flat bread we call “pizza” was the use of tomato as a topping. For some time after the tomato was brought to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century, it was believed by many Europeans to be poisonous (as are some other fruits of the nightshade family). However, by the late 18th century it was common for the poor of the area around Naples to add tomato to their yeast-based flat bread, and so the pizza was born. "
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"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 led 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. 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."
noddles .
nope
pizza came from sicily
spaghetti is italian food
google it
We got pasta from China but pizza is American!
China didn't invent none of them...italy invented pizza and spaghetti...so im sorry i think you lost the bet.
No.
Pizza and Spaghetti strictly came from Italy.
Look it up.
just noodles, italians got the pizza
no they didnt italy with sapghtti and america for pizza but bothe were created by itallians
china first came up with pasta noodles (ie, spaghetti) however, the Italians later made pasta into new shapes, sizes...etc.
China did make the first pizza pies.....however, the italians are credited with how it looks today. (the ones the chineese had way back when...didn't look like what you see now).
Research this name.
Marco Pollo.
This will give you a lot of info on how Pizza, pasta, fireworks and a whole host of other things came from China.......
I hope this helps.
No. The Greeks actually came up with the bare-bones concepts of pizza, later Italian street vendors would sell bread circles called "pizza" to people in Italy. Queen Margherita had a fascination with this creation and ordered a pizza maker to her castle to make pizza for her, and to honour the queen, he made a special pizza adorned with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil. This has since been known as the Margherita Pizza in alot of restaurants.
The Arabs actually introduced pasta to Sicily, a looooooong time ago.
The Italians took it and made spaghetti.
I saw all this stuff on history channel, and I also had to research it for my commercial cooking class. Here are two links that lay out the history of both dishes.
Noodles were invented in China (4000 years ago, using rice flour), many hundreds of years before Italians began making spaghetti using semolina flour.
And pizza probably originated in Ancient Greece, though there is some evidence the Mesopotamians were making flat, round breads with stuff on them far earlier than that. Since most people think "cheese & tomato sauce" when they think pizza, it's worth noting that tomatoes came from America, so could NEVER have appeared on a pizza in Italy until some time after Columbus landed on Hispaniola!
ummm.... pizza is from America, and spaghetti is from Italy
Pizza as we know it in America was an American invention by Italian immigrants. A form of pizza was invented in Italy.
Spaghetti, Italy.
Google it for proof or use the wikki.
no, those foods came from the land of ITALY!!