Why was pasta invented?

Answer 1

The Chinese invented pasta. Rice noodles are easy to make.

Marco Polo took the pasta to Italy and they began making pasta using Wheat (unlike the Chinese who used Rice).

Another thought:

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.E., 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.E. 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.

Source: Ilovepasta.org/faqs

The Chinese didn't use the word pasta which is Italian. However, the oldest form of noodle has been unearthed in an overturned, sealed bowl at an archaeological site in Lajia (northwestern China).The bowl was buries under ten feet of sediment. Unlike our semolina pasta, these noodles were made from two varieties of millet which was highly cultivated throughout Chinese history dating back 7000 years.

Answer 2

Its not just made in Italy,it is made all around the world now.Pasta has originated from Italy.It is also commonly used to refer to the variety of pasta dishes. with 310 specific forms known variably by over 1300 names having been documented. In Italy the names of specific pasta shapes or types often vary with local.

Answer 3

because the Italians thought of it, so they created it!! and so there be pasta.

Answer 4

Italians never invented pasta. When Marco Polo came back from Asia he brought Chinese noodles with and taught the Italians how to make them

Answer 5

The pasta Italians invented was spaghetti.

Answer 6

italy did invent pasta

Answer 7

pasta was invented in china

Answer 8

Italians