The earliest pasta was formed around the 13th to 14th centuries AD, and is most similar to the pasta we eat today.

After the Renaissance, the types of pasta and sauces gradually became richer with art.

When edible dough first appeared, the method of making it was to press the flour dough into a tissue shape, then cover it on the food and put it in the oven for cooking.

Later, people thought of cutting the dough into small pieces or stick-shaped elongated noodles, and the Arabs even thought of drying and storing the noodles.

The emergence of tomatoes and the subsequent improvement of varieties were first used as a sauce to go with noodles in Naples, Italy. Since then, noodles have become very popular, and even royalty was attracted.

Authentic spaghetti is made from copper molds. Due to its thicker and uneven appearance, it is easier for sauces to stick to the surface, making it taste better.

In addition to original noodles, other colorful noodles are made from a mixture of fruits and vegetables, such as saffron noodles, black cuttlefish noodles, and egg yolk noodles.

Basically, pasta sauces can be divided into red sauce and white sauce. Red sauce is a red sauce with tomatoes as the base, and white sauce is a white sauce with flour, milk and cream as the base. In addition, there are

Pasta seasoned with olive oil and herb sauce made with herbs.

People in southern Italy like to eat dried pasta, while fresh pasta is more popular in the north.

Generally speaking, pasta is mostly used as a starter, seafood pasta is paired with white wine, and those with thick sauces are paired with red wine.

The story of the development of pasta. At that time, in order to solve the problem of large population and difficulty in preserving food, the Roman Empire came up with the ingenious idea of ??kneading flour into balls, rolling them into pancakes, then cutting them into strips and drying them in the sun. This led to the invention of the famous delicacy - PASTA.

(spaghetti).

The original pasta was kneaded, cut, and dried in this way, and was cooked in an oven with meat and vegetables when eaten. Therefore, stretched noodles and dried noodles could be seen everywhere in the streets and squares of many cities on the Italian Peninsula.

people.

It is said that the longest noodle is 800 meters long.

However, since pasta was originally a product to cope with food shortages, it was mostly favored by the poor, but its deliciousness soon became irresistible to all classes.

The pasta tastes juicey and watery, which is quite inconvenient.

In the early days, people used their fingers to grab the food, and after eating, they would lick the fingers dipped in juice cleanly.

In the Middle Ages, some upper-class people thought it was indecent to eat like this, so they racked their brains to invent a fork that could roll noodles on the four tines and put them in your mouth.

The invention of the dinner fork is considered to be a sign that Western diet has entered the civilized era.

In this sense, pasta deserves a lot of credit.

Noodles written in the will The discovery of the New World opened up people's imagination and brought more changes to pasta: two plants imported from America - peppers and tomatoes - were introduced into the sauce.

By the end of the 19th century, the three famous sauce systems of pasta: tomato base, fresh cream base and olive oil base were fully formed, with various seafood, vegetables, fruits and spices, forming complex and changeable sauce flavors.

The noodles themselves also come in many shapes, including elongated, flat, spiral, butterfly and other shapes, and are made into colorful varieties by adding pumpkin, spinach, grapes, etc.

According to statistics, there are as many as 563 varieties of pasta.

But who would have thought that spaghetti was first kneaded with feet?

Because the dough is too big, I can’t knead it with my hands.

It was not until the 18th century that the hygienic King Ferdinando II of Naples invited craftsmen to invent the dough kneading machine.

In 1740, the first noodle factory was built, and the spectacle of drying noodles in the square became history.

Italians seem to have an innate love for noodles. Many people keep their unique pasta recipes on the shelf and refuse to reveal them to others. They even solemnly write pasta into their wills.

Noodles were mentioned in many operas and novels in the Middle Ages.

Garibaldi, the modern Italian national hero, also rewarded the three armies with noodles, and even Napoleon used "eating noodles" to boost morale during the Po River March.