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ABC Noodle House & Seafood on Menaul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although popular myth attributes the introduction of pasta in Italy to Marco Polo, pasta’s origins in Lo Stivale can be traced back as far as the 4th century B.C.\u00a0 That’s when the Etruscan civilization-which existed in the Tuscany region from the 8th to the 3rd century BCE–began the centuries old love affair between Italians and pasta.\u00a0 Culinary historians agree that pasta\u2019s earliest roots begin in China, during the Shang Dynasty (1700-1100 BC), where some form of pasta was made with either wheat or rice flour. Pasta also appears to have been part of the ancient Greek diet in the first millennium B.C.\u00a0 Africa also had its own form of pasta (made with the kamut crop).<\/p>\n

Despite being first to create pasta, you don’t often hear the term “pasta” associated with China.\u00a0 That’s because there’s a difference between pasta and noodles.\u00a0 The National Pasta Association<\/strong><\/a> defines pasta as being “a dough made from durum wheat and water and stamped into different shapes<\/em>.”\u00a0 \u00a0Noodles, on the other hand, aren’t linked to one particular grain.\u00a0 Nona Lin<\/strong><\/a>, a wonderful website explains: “From buckwheat noodles to rice noodles, yam noodles, and wheat flour noodles, there\u2019s no shortage of choice. Noodles can be crafted from everything from root vegetables to tapioca flour, mung bean starch, seaweed, and rice flour. They can be stretched, pulled, rolled, cut, and twisted. They show up in soups, salads, steaming broths, stir-fries, side dishes and as the star event. They can be silky soft, thick, and chewy, and fresh or dried<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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ABC Noodle House Dining Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Insofar as classifying pasta, La Familia<\/strong><\/a> Ristorante Italiano in Reno, Nevada clarifies: “Pasta can be categorized into roughly 350 different types of pasta broadly sorted into four categories:<\/p>\n