This Italian food has conquered the world! Simple, tasty, and inexpensive, but at the same time very nutritious and good for your figure. What may you not know about this popular dish?
- The Italians were not the first one to start cooking the pasta. The pasta was known in China over 5000 years BC. But the Italians made pasta, the most popular dish in the world.
- The word “pasta” comes from the Italian word pasta, the “dough.” But the story of the origin of the word “pasta” is not so limited. The Greek word means pastors “sprinkled with salt” and, as you know, the macaroni is boiled in salted water.
- The pasta we used to eat today, such was not always the case. Originally it was prepared from a mixture of flour and water rolled and dried in the sun.
- In the world, there are more than 600 kinds of pasta, different in composition and shape.
- The most common pasta shape is spaghetti. In Italian the word means “thin threads”.
- Until the 18th-century, pasta happened to be only on the tables of ordinary people and ate her hands. Among the aristocracy, pasta became popular only with the invention of Cutlery, such as a fork.
- Different color pasta gives natural ingredients, such as spinach, tomatoes, carrots or pumpkin, etc. What gives pasta the color gray? These kinds of pasta are prepared with the addition of liquid from the squid.
- The average resident of Italy consumes about 26 pounds of pasta in a year and, by the way, does not mend.
- Since ancient times the quality of pasta in Italy tracked the Pope. Since the 13th century, this honorable mission was assigned to the ruling priest, which set the quality standards and various rules relating to this dish.
- The first pasta was not boiled, and baked. Today, pasta from durum wheat is customary to boil until half-cooked – al dente.