which country invented spaghetti?

Answer 1

Italy

Answer 2

While legend has it that Marco Polo brought the recipe for spaghetti back from China, prior evidence showed that pasta has been made in Italy at least since the 4th century BC. In October 2005, a bowl of noodles 4000 years old was unearthed in a Chinese archaeological site as reported by the BBC.[1]

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Preparation
Most spaghetti sold and consumed is commercially prepared, then dried. Spaghetti is cooked by boiling the pasta in salted water until soft. The consistency or texture of spaghetti changes as it is cooked. The most popular consistency is al dente which is translated from the Italian as "to the tooth"; that is soft but with texture, sometimes even with bite in the centre. Others prefer their spaghetti fully cooked, which gives it a much softer consistency. The best dried spaghetti is made from durum wheat semolina. Fresh spaghetti should be prepared with grade '00' flour. Inferior spaghetti is often found produced with other kinds of flour, especially outside Italy.

An emblem of Italian cuisine, spaghetti is frequently served in tomato sauce, which may contain various herbs (especially oregano and basil), olive oil, meat, or vegetables. Other toppings include any of several hard cheeses, such as Pecorino Romano, Parmesan or Asiago. Outside Italy it is often served with meatballs, although that is not a typical Italian recipe.

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Eating
Eating spaghetti with a fork and a spoon is perfectly polite, being the traditional Neapolitan habit. Many other Italians eat it with just a fork like most other Continental dishes.

In Asia, many people use chopsticks as a form of eating rather than forks, as chopsticks are custom in most Asian countries.

In parts of the US, a narrow size of macaroni is sold as elbow spaghetti. This is a misnomer, as this product is short and tubular, thus it's not a spaghetti at all.

Spaghettini is a form of pasta that is very much like spaghetti, except a bit thinner.

Answer 3

Popular history says that it was invented in China, and that Marco Polo brought the knowledge of this food to Venice. The spaghetti Polo encountered (and presumably tasted) in the far east was made from either rice flour or hard wheat flour (long noodles made from both grains exist in eastern cookery). It is generally accepted that the variety of durum wheat known in Sicily during the Middle Ages was, like lemons and oranges, introduced by the Arabs. And that brings us to the pivotal part of the story.

Answer 4

Spaghetti is Italian, but the whole pasta category owes its origins to China.

When Marco Polo went to China, he did not bring back spaghetti -- he brought back the concept of pasta and noodles. Noodles in China are made of many ingredients like egg, wheat, but mostly rice.

To compare Chow Mein noodles to Spaghetti is not fair... Spaghetti has a different recipe, and thickness.

Answer 5

The history of pasta is linked with the history of wheat farming. Wheat has been farmed for at least the last 10,000 years, and there is a good chance that a form of pasta was consumed somewhere in the middle-east in that period.

The popular history of pasta suggests that it was brought back from China by Marco Polo This is factually incorrect. The 'Real' history of pasta records that the Ancient Romans were eating Pasta a good thousand years before Marco Polo was born. The famous Roman Chef, Apicius makes reference to a form of Pasta ribbons in his 1st century cookbook.

Other historical records show that Pasta making equipment was probably used by the Etruscans, and that Pasta itself may have come to Italy from Ancient Greece.

We have to wait until the 12th century for the next specific mention of Pasta, when Guglielmo di Malavalle makes reference to macarroni being served at a banquet.

The history of dried pasta probably starts with the Sicilian's, and was rapidly adopted by other Italian states as the perfect food for taking on the long naval voyages that merchants and traders depended on.

The history of Lasagne starts with a book by Fr. Bartolomeo Secchi, which makes reference to Long Pasta, Hollow Pasta and Past soup noodles.

During the 16th century pasta was still very much a luxury food. Although pasta was now being produced commercially, the durum wheat required was expensive, and as result pasta tended to be only eaten by the wealthy.

Pasta finally became a regular part of the national Italian diet in the 17th Century. The easy availability of simple pasta home-manufacturing machines coupled with mass farming of durum wheat, meant that home-made pasta was both practical and economical.

The first large-scale pasta manufacturer was Buitoni, established in 1827. Buitoni still exists today, but is no longer an independant company being a part of the Nestles group.

Mass produced pasta is now available all over the world, but any respectable Italian Chef will still prefer to make his own, or buy from a reputable smaller company.

Answer 6

Spaghetti as well as pizza was originated from China, and Marco Polo went there and brought the food to his native European country of Italy.

Answer 7

I believe that spaghetti was brought from China by Marco Polo

Answer 8

Pasta comes originally from China (recently examples as old as 3000 years were found in China). But, spaghetti as we know it is from Italy.

Answer 9

Italy

Answer 10

Italy