If You Think That Pasta Is Of Italian Origin, You Are Wrong.

&NewLine;<p><strong><mark style&equals;"background-color&colon;rgba&lpar;0&comma; 0&comma; 0&comma; 0&rpar;" class&equals;"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color">Beginning of Noodles&colon; Before 1000 BC&comma; China<&sol;mark><&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>We enjoy many foods whose Italian names tell us what they look like&comma; how they are prepared&comma; or even their origin&colon; espresso means &&num;8220&semi;pressed&&num;8221&semi;&comma; cannelloni &&num;8220&semi;big tubes&&num;8221&semi;&comma; ravioli &&num;8220&semi;little turnip&&num;8221&semi;&comma; pasta &&num;8220&semi;little strings&&num;8221&semi;&comma; tutti frutti are all Fruits&comma; vermicelli &&num;8220&semi;little worms&&num;8221&semi;&comma; lasagna &&num;8220&semi;bread bowl&&num;8221&semi;&comma; Parmesan &&num;8220&semi;parmesan&&num;8221&semi;&comma; minestrone &&num;8220&semi;spread out&&num;8221&semi;&comma; and pasta &&num;8220&semi;raw or fresh dough&&num;8221&semi;&period; All of these foods evoke images of Italy&comma; and all but one come from that country&comma; pasta &lpar;including vermicelli and spaghetti&rpar;&comma; which was first made in China at least three thousand years ago&comma; from rice and bean flour&&num;8230&semi;<br>The story goes that the Polo brothers&comma; Niccol and Maffeo&comma; and Niccol&&num;8217&semi;s son&comma; Marco when they returned from China at the end of the thirteenth century&comma; brought with them recipes for Chinese noodles&period; It is known for certain that the consumption of pasta in the form of spaghetti and ravioli began in Italy in 1353&comma; the same year that Boccaccio published The Decameron&period; This book tells a hundred fairy tales&comma; supposedly told by a group of ten people from Florence during a trip&period; Decamerone means &&num;8220&semi;ten days&&num;8221&semi;&period; This book not only mentions the two dishes but also suggests adding sauce and cheese on top&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In an area called Bengodi&comma; where they tie the vines to the sausage&comma; there is a mountain made of grated Parmesan cheese on which men work all day long to make spaghetti and ravioli&comma; and eat it with sauce&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;kitchenrecipes4u&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;blindanddark-20220507-0001-819x1024&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-1132" width&equals;"265" height&equals;"331"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>For centuries&comma; Italians painstakingly made and cut all shapes of pasta by hand&period; Spaghetti was first produced on a large scale in Naples in the 1800s&comma; where long strings were hung to dry in the sun&period; The dough was kneaded by hand until the 1830s when a mechanical kneading bowl was invented and adopted on a large scale throughout Italy&period;<br>Canned pasta and ravioli originated in America&comma; from the creation of Italian-born&comma; New York-based chef Hector Bawardi&period; He believed that Americans did not have the knowledge of Italian food as they should and decided to do something about it&period;<br>At first&comma; he packaged pasta and sold it under the name Bo-Yar-D&comma; which quickly caught the attention of John Hartford&comma; an executive of a food distribution chain&comma; and then appeared on store shelves&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;