Who invened pasta: Asians or Italians?

Question

Seriously guys, I want to know. Please nothing on what you THINK, and no race faveorites. I want serious, real answers. Thanx! =)

No, sorry, I meant noodles! Like Chinese is Lo mein and Italian is pasta. But who relly made "noodles" first?

Answer 1

Chinese were pasta masters 2,000 years before Italians

THE first known bowl of pasta was filled not with Italian spaghetti but with Chinese noodles, archaeologists have discovered.
A dish filled with beautifully preserved yellow noodles from 4,000 years ago has been unearthed at a dig near the Yellow River in northwestern China, settling a long-running dispute about who invented it.

The noodles from the Lajia archaeological site, which are about 50cm (20in) long and 3mm in diameter, appear similar in style to a traditional variety called La-Mian, which are still popular in China.

Like La-Mian noodles, they appear to have been made by stretching dough by hand, though the ancient dough was made from millet flour and not the wheat, barley or rice that are used today.

The find, details of which are published today in the journal Nature, proves that the Chinese were shaping flour into noodles and boiling them for the plate at least 2,000 years before the practice first emerged in Italy.

The origins of Italian pasta remain uncertain

Answer 2

Current evidence shows that the CHinese invented noodles, but it wasn't wheat noodles like lo mein or Spaghetti. The flour used was millet though. The two above me who discuss the ercheological sites were describing the millet noodles. As for the Marco Polo rumour, that is a lie. They found lasagna type noodles long before Marco Polo trip. It's hard to tell who invented the wheat noodles, because the Chinese and Romans had indirect communication between the two. The silk road has existed for a very long time.

Answer 3

Asians. I read something once about a 4,000 year old bowl of noodles found by archeologists in China. I never heard of the ancient Romans eating pasta and I don't think the Roman culture even goes back that far.

I always heard that the Italian explorer Marco Polo learned about noodle making when he went to China and brought it back to Italy. The Italians then started experimenting with different shapes. I don't know for certain if that is accurate, but it sounds reasonable. However, I'm 100% convinced that the Chinese had spaghetti like noodles for thousands for years before the Italians.

That rated "bad answer?" How funny. I even posted a link to the article about the 4,000 year old bowl of noodles. Seems like pretty good evidence to me.

Answer 4

Who "invented" pasta?

Popular legend has it that Marco Polo introduced pasta to Italy following his exploration of the Far East in the late 13th century; however, we can trace pasta back as far as the fourth century B.C., where an Etruscan tomb showed a group of natives making what appears to be pasta. The Chinese were making a noodle-like food as early as 3000 B.C. And Greek mythology suggests that the Greek God Vulcan invented a device that made strings of dough (the first spaghetti!).

Pasta made its way to the New World through the English, who discovered it while touring Italy. Colonists brought to America the English practice of cooking noodles at least one half hour, then smothering them with cream sauce and cheese. But it was Thomas Jefferson who is credited with bringing the first "maccaroni" machine to America in 1789 when he returned home after serving as ambassador to France.

The first industrial pasta factory in America was built in Brooklyn in 1848 by, of all people, a Frenchman, who spread his spaghetti strands on the roof to dry in the sunshine.

Answer 5

Legend has it that Marco Polo brought noodles back to Italy with him and the Italians evolved pasta from the idea. History says that's probably not right, because Italians already had noodles by then, but there is possible that SOMEONE brought the idea back from Asia. Who knows?

Answer 6

The Chinese. Marco Polo's son (maybe grandson) brought noodles back to Italy.

Answer 7

The Chinese have been making noodles as early as 4000 BC (and this has been proven by the discovery of a well-preserved bowl of pasta that’s more than 2000 years old). The word, though, comes from the Italian 'pasta' which shares its origins with "paste", meaning "dough," or “pastry” which means “small cake.”

Answer 8

Pasta in China dates back to 5000BC and legend has it that Marco Polo brought the recipe to Italy

Answer 9

The Chinese.

Answer 10

China did .

Marco Polo brought the noodles back to Italy and from there they made it their own.