Post by Zadkiel on Jun 19, 2016 7:01:34 GMT
Did Marco Polo introduce pasta to Italy from China? A legend, helped along by the 1938 film The Adventures of Marco Polo starring Gary Cooper, took literary license in depicting the great traveler bringing spaghetti to Italy for the first time (around 1300). But the truth is that pasta dates back to members of the ancient Etruscan culture, who made pasta by grinding cereals and then mixing them with water before cooking the mixture into a tasty and nutritious food product. The Italian version of noodles – spaghetti made with durum wheat – had also been produced in Sicily for two centuries before Marco Polo made his way back from China.
