Some time ago, China and Italy argued for a few days about who was the ancestor of noodles. Italians insist that as early as ancient Rome, their ancestors could make noodles. Among the documents left by the Roman Empire, an old man left his son a bucket of spaghetti as a legacy. China people moved out? 4000 years ago? New discoveries unearthed; Is it? Are you in a hurry? Some Italians even dig up myths and legends: Vulcan in Greece has a machine that can make spaghetti as slender as spaghetti.
Aside from the result of this argument, it should be said that Italians are really good at making noodles. At that time, in order to solve the problem of large population and difficult preservation of grain, the Roman Empire came up with an ingenious scheme, which rolled flour into balls, rolled them into pancakes, and then cut them into strips to dry, thus inventing the famous food spaghetti (spaghetti) that has been handed down for centuries.
The original spaghetti was kneaded, cut and dried in this way, and baked in the oven with meat and vegetables. Therefore, in the streets and squares of many cities in the Italian peninsula, Lamian Noodles and noodles people are everywhere. It is said that the longest noodle is 800 meters. However, because spaghetti was originally a product to deal with food shortage, most people who favored it were poor, but its delicious taste soon made all walks of life irresistible.
Pasta is not convenient to eat even with juice and water. In the early days, people scratched with their fingers and licked their fingers after eating. In the middle ages, some upper-class people thought it was indecent to eat like this, and racked their brains to invent a fork, which could roll up noodles with four sharp teeth and put them in their mouths. The invention of fork is considered as a sign that western diet has entered a civilized era. In this sense, spaghetti contributes a lot.
Noodles were written into the will.
The discovery of the New World broadened people's imagination and brought more changes to spaghetti: two plants, pepper and tomato, were introduced from the United States and introduced into the sauce. By the end of 19, the three famous sauce systems of spaghetti, tomato sauce, fresh cream sauce and olive oil sauce, were fully formed, and mixed with various seafood, vegetables, fruits and spices to form a complex and changeable sauce flavor.
Noodles themselves are varied, including slender, flat, spiral, butterfly-shaped and so on. Pumpkin, spinach, grapes and so on are added to make colorful varieties. According to statistics, there are 563 varieties of pasta. But who would have thought that spaghetti was first kneaded with feet? Because the dough is too big to knead by hand. Until18th century, Ferdinando II, king of Naples, who talked about hygiene, invited a skillful craftsman to invent the dough mixer. 1740, the first noodle factory was built, and the big scene of drying noodles in the square became history.
Italians' love for noodles seems to be innate. Many people put the secret recipe of making noodles on the shelf, refused to show it easily, and even seriously wrote spaghetti into their wills. Noodles were mentioned in many operas and novels in the Middle Ages. Garibaldi, a modern Italian national hero, rewarded the three armies with noodles, even taking Napoleon with him when he marched on the Po River? Noodles? Boost morale.
Become the darling of the world
Zazie Hoko
Time will change many things. Many ancient favorite foods are no longer beautiful today, but spaghetti is becoming more and more vital: now the annual output of spaghetti in the world has reached 6.5438+million tons. In Italy, everyone eats at least 28 kilograms of noodles every year.
There is even a unique noodle museum near the presidential palace in the center of Rome, which attracts an endless stream of tourists. This museum * * * has 1 1 exhibition hall, which displays noodle products and processing instruments in different periods, from the earliest rolling pin and basin to the noodle cutting machine and noodle production line. Many objects vividly describe the development history of spaghetti for hundreds of years.
Nowadays spaghetti has become the darling of the world. As many as 27 countries participated in this year's World Noodle Conference. Is it famous in new york? July 4 th, the big stomach king? In the competition, the spaghetti competition became a reserved program. In this year's competition, 9 players swallowed 16.2 kg of noodles in just 8 minutes, with an average of 1.8 kg per person. Today, spaghetti can be found in more than 100 countries in the world, and its fragrance can even be smelled outside the earth. In the recipes of the International Space Station, spaghetti is impressively listed.