what in heck are pasta and noodles? and is noodle inventer dead? please reply urgent
2007-01-07 14:57:02 · 16 answers · asked by mattymathmetal 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Pasta is made from duram (?spelling) wheat and water, sometimes egg too. Noodles and pasta have a distant historical link and have been around for centuries, so the inventor is, presumably, dead!
2007-01-09 08:09:19 · answer #1 · answered by Green Fairy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Chinese invented the noodle I would well imagine inventor is long gone. See below dispute over noodles
Pasta Dough
1 3/4 cups (8 ounces) all-purpose flour
6 large egg yolks
1 large egg
1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil
1 tablespoon milk
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/105858
http://chinesefood.about.com/od/chinesecookingbasics/a/chinesenoodles.htm
The Arabs claim to have been the first to use dried pasta, as a means of preserving flour during their forays across the desert. But regardless of their origin, we do know that the Chinese have been feasting on noodles for approximately 2000 years, since the Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD). In fact, some experts believe that the Italians got their first taste of pasta when Marco Polo returned home from his long trek across China with a host of exotic food items, including noodles.
2007-01-07 15:08:00 · answer #2 · answered by LucySD 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
European pasta is made usually from semolina, and most asian noodles are made with rice flour or other ingredients bean thread noodles come to mind at the moment).
And both are made from paste, then air-dried for long-term storage.
Legend has it that Marco Polo brought pasta from the Orient.
But you may be thinking of the inventor of Nissin Cup Noodles , Momofuku Ando.
He died recently at the age of 96.
2007-01-07 15:05:06 · answer #3 · answered by jont 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Flour,wheat,eggs,water,salt, are a hunderds of ways to make a pasta or a noodle.
Pasta is Flour, Eggs and Water.
2007-01-07 15:06:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Duram semolina Flour, fresh pasta has egg added, there is also rice noodles, Spinach, buckwheat, and many others. China is supposedly the 1st to come up with the idea- if you google it you will have a more precise anwser
2007-01-07 15:08:52 · answer #5 · answered by gregg s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
made from the flour of certain grains mixed with water and/or eggs, which is then kneaded and formed into various shapes, and boiled prior to consumption.
The Chinese, Arab and Italian peoples all claimed to have been the first to create noodles, though the first written account of noodles is from the East Han Dynasty between 25 and 220 CE.
2007-01-08 04:36:40 · answer #6 · answered by Cheeky Chic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a big tv scam a long time ago (when pasta was still seen as quite exotic), which said spaghetti grew on trees, and showed it there. Quite a few people fell for it!
2007-01-10 05:59:35 · answer #7 · answered by Nikita21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most are made of flour and water. Others are made of wheat and water. Depends on where you get them. Some say the Chinese first invented the noodle. Try a Google search or Ask.com
2007-01-07 15:00:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
basically pasta dough like all other types of dough is flour & water,mixed to the right consisteny,then worked into various shapes,most countries have their own type of noodle or vermecilli,which is the basic dough drawn out finer than the standard noodle thickness.variations are egg noodles with egg incorporated into the dough,rice noodles using rice flour ,semolina is also used to make noodles.
2007-01-07 17:31:13 · answer #9 · answered by dee k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
flour and water and salt
but egg pasta has egg in obviously,
My other half didn't believe me when i said chow mein was a form of egg pasta
2007-01-07 15:04:13 · answer #10 · answered by im2jaded04 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋