Which country did "pasta" originate from?

Answer 1

*Some have attributed the innovation of dried pasta, in the form of long thin noodles we use today (spaghetti) to the Arabs who populated Southern Italy (i.e. Sicily) around the 12th Century. Prior to this, Italians are said to have eaten their pasta freshly made (pasta fresca) in a gnocchi like form. !!!!!!!

Answer 2

It's funny about ethnic food. Nationalities and ethnicities extend their pride to their food - Italian and Chinese food historians, in one example, still bicker over the true origin of pasta. Some reasonable Italians might say its origins were Germanic, and that this origin can be traced back to the 5th Century A.D., but some Italians have gone further to say that pasta was indeed unique to, and created by, Italians. The first certain record of noodles cooked by boiling is in the Jerusalem Talmud, written in Aramaic in the 5th century AD. The word used for the noodles was itriyah. In Arabic references this word stands for the dried noodles purchased from a vendor, rather than homemade noodles which would have been fresh. Dried noodles are portable, while fresh must be eaten immediately. More than likely, pasta was introduced during the Arab conquests of Sicily, carried in as a dry staple. The Arab geographer, Al Idrisi wrote that a flour-based product in the shape of strings was produced in Palermo, then an Arab colony.

Answer 3

Hands down, noodles originated in China. Archaelogists there have recently (within the last 18 months or so) unearthed a 4000 year old site. In the homesite was a bowl of fossilized noodles. WAAAY before Italian noodles.

Noodles didn't show up in Italian cuisine until the fourteenth or fifteenth century AD, but boy did those folks learn to make good use of their new discovery! I don't think any culture anywhere has more variety and widespread use of noodles than Italy. Don't ya love a nice tortellini with bechamel and marinara!?!

China invented it, Italy perfected it : )

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

China. My brother used to subscribe to some science for kids magazine, and I was looking through it. They have found evidence that pasta originated from China. A mudslide had preserved an ancient town and a bowl of noodles. This proves that pasta was indeed first made in China.

Answer 5

China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta

Answer 6

both the word pasta and the food pasta were originated in Italy. The word pasta comes from Italian pasta which shares its origins with "paste", meaning "dough", "pasta", or "pastry" as in "small cake".

Answer 7

The Chinese were the first to make noodles as far as we know.

A 4,000 year old bowl of noodles was recently found in China. (See the link below) I don't think an older bowl of noodles has ever been found anywhere.

The Italians adopted it and created all those different shapes. The old story goes that the Italian explorer Marco Polo went to China and brought noodles back to Italy.

Answer 8

This is a controversial subject. Honest historians don't agree, and most of the shouting comes from partisans who exhibit excessive ethnic pride.

Pasta apparently originated with spelt, which was a predecessor of wheat.

Originally, it's thought to have been eaten mostly as gruel, but leftover gruel was spread thin to dry - which became the first pasta.

Since spelt apparently originated there, pasta also probably originated in Transcaucasia, north of the Black Sea.

Answer 9

I believe pasta originated in Asia, and was intoduced to Italy by Marco Polo.

Answer 10

The italians bought it from China when Marco Polo traveled on one of his voyages to China he actually thoought the chinese were eating worms so he got interested in the spaghetti stuff and brought some back to italy. Spaghetti became an Italian dish ever since then.


However your question is an interesting one..