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Didn't Italy get noodles from Asia relatively recently

• lmm 2y ago
  No. Common myth. The Romans had pasta.
  • lolinder 2y ago
    I'm willing to believe it, but do you have a citation? Google is useless here, too many results for non-ancient Rome, but when I can find one that is properly about the ancients they all claim the same thing: the Romans had things that could be considered pasta-like (pancakes used for a sort of lasagna dish) but those were not actually the ancestors of Italian noodles.
    • rodgerd 2y ago
      Roger II found pasta factories when he seized control of Sicily: https://italicsmag.com/2020/05/29/a-brief-history-of-pasta/ https://italicsmag.com/2020/05/29/a-brief-history-of-pasta/
      • lolinder 2y ago
        Again, though: did the various dough concoctions turn into pasta the way that we think of it today, or did modern pasta come from the East? Boiled dough balls and pancakes are a far cry from the thin, stretchy, glutenous noodles that we call pasta.