During the 20th century, Americans developed a love affair with pasta. On the big screen, spaghetti played memorable roles in classic films such as the Marx Brothers’ Night at the Opera (1935 ...

According to historians, Arabic and North African merchants likely brought dried pasta to Italy around the 8th or 9th century ...

4. Marco Polo: The famous explorer Marco Polo, in his travel accounts from the 13th century, mentioned a pasta-like food in ...

Su filindeu, or "threads of God," is the rarest pasta in the world. For a century, it was made by a single family in the Sardinian city of Nuoro for religious celebrations. Today, there are fewer ...

For a long time, it was thought that Venetian explorer Marco Polo had first brought pasta from China to Italy at the end of the 13th Century, but that turned out to be a myth. Pasta-like foods ...

Season the pasta with salt and pepper and serve with Parmesan cheese. Reproduced with the kind permission of Ruth Reichl from her book Comfort Me With Apples, Century; ISBN: 0712617957 ...