I heard the Chinese invented spaghetti, but didn't the Italians have pasta for a long time? ?!
Answers:
Pasta-type food originated with the Chinese, Greeks or the Etruscans!. Italian recipe books had recipes for it before Marco Polo's trip to China!.
Greek origins:
Many food connoisseurs trace the origin of pasta in the pages of Greek mythology!. It is believed that the Greek word " laganon " indicated a wide and flat sheet of pasta dough cut into stripes!. In succeeding centuries the existence of pasta was found in Roman cookery as " lagane "!. The first recorded evidence of Roman connection to pasta appears in 1st century A!.D!. in the writings of Apicio, titled " de re coquinaria ", when he narrates the use of " the yielding lagane to enclose timbales and pie stuffing "!.
more here:
http://www!.pasta!.go!.it/origin!.htm
The ancient Etruscans:
There exists valid evidence that the ancient Etruscans prepared a food made out of a wheat and egg paste, which is basically what pasta is, however the Etruscans baked their “pasta” and didn't boil it, so we have to decide is a baked wheat and egg mixture so different to a boiled mixture that they are two different types of food!. Archeologists have discovered artifacts from 3,000 years ago that look astonishingly like present day pasta extruders and dies!. Unfortunately the food, if indeed it was food that these artifacts were used on was not preserved!.
more here:
http://africhef!.com/Pasta/index!.html
more pasta history here:
http://www!.thenibble!.com/reviews/main/pa!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Greek origins:
Many food connoisseurs trace the origin of pasta in the pages of Greek mythology!. It is believed that the Greek word " laganon " indicated a wide and flat sheet of pasta dough cut into stripes!. In succeeding centuries the existence of pasta was found in Roman cookery as " lagane "!. The first recorded evidence of Roman connection to pasta appears in 1st century A!.D!. in the writings of Apicio, titled " de re coquinaria ", when he narrates the use of " the yielding lagane to enclose timbales and pie stuffing "!.
more here:
http://www!.pasta!.go!.it/origin!.htm
The ancient Etruscans:
There exists valid evidence that the ancient Etruscans prepared a food made out of a wheat and egg paste, which is basically what pasta is, however the Etruscans baked their “pasta” and didn't boil it, so we have to decide is a baked wheat and egg mixture so different to a boiled mixture that they are two different types of food!. Archeologists have discovered artifacts from 3,000 years ago that look astonishingly like present day pasta extruders and dies!. Unfortunately the food, if indeed it was food that these artifacts were used on was not preserved!.
more here:
http://africhef!.com/Pasta/index!.html
more pasta history here:
http://www!.thenibble!.com/reviews/main/pa!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
This is true!. They had the idea to make pasta but Marco Polo found in his trip down the Silk Road found that the Chinese had their own version, such as that we see in Ramen noodles!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I think the general consensus is that the Chinese were eating noodles, probably made of rice, for a very very long time!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I am chinese so it started like this first the chinese had the noodle then the italian people stoool their ideaWww@FoodAQ@Com
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the chinese actually had the first noodle pasta ,long before italyWww@FoodAQ@Com
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