[rollei_list] Re: New Haven pizza photos

Shouldn't Marc have enquired about your sauce instead?
;)

Very interesting, actually, Todd - I had always had
some trouble believing the Marco Polo story about
pasta. But does anyone know when rice first came to
Italy?

Nick
Todd belcher <todd_belcher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just responding, Marc, by paraphrasing your own
> quaint parlance :
> 
> On 23-May-06, at 10:21 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
> >
> > There is much BS with Pizza.
> 
> Have a look around the net as well as the profusion
> of evidence in  
> many books.
> 
> It is well documented that pasta in Italy did not
> originate with  
> Marco Polo. In fact marco Polo in his own book, "I
> Millioni" says  
> that the Chinese make a "lasagna similar to that
> which we prepare  
> with wheat flour.
> 
> The romantic myth that Marco Polo brought pasta on
> his return from  
> China has long been debunked. Marco returned in 1295
> after twenty-odd  
> years of travel away from Italy. In 1279, however, a
> Genoese soldier  
> listed in the inventory of his estate a basket of
> dried pasta ('una  
> bariscella plena de macaronis'). The Sicilian word
> "maccaruni" which  
> translates as "made into a dough by force" is the
> origin of the word,  
> macaroni. Anyone who has kneaded durum wheat knows
> that force is  
> necessary. In the ancient methods of making pasta,
> force meant  
> kneading the dough with the feet, often a process
> that took a full day.
> 
> Additionally, most scholars believe that pasta was
> imported to Italy  
> via the Arabs who documented long ago, the making
> dried pasta. The  
> facts are that strips of dried pasta were included
> in the staples  
> that seafarers and caravans used to carry with them
> even before the  
> year 1000 A.D. Which makes a lot of sense due to the
> fact that on  
> these long journeys non-perishable food stuffs were
> in high demand.  
> The Arab geographer Abu Abdallah Muhammed Al Idrisi
> in his book,  
> written around the year 1150 A.D. and destined for
> the Norman King of  
> Sicily, Roger II, gave a particular account of how
> to dry, and thus  
> preserve, fresh pasta.



        
        
                
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