[Sca-cooks] Noodles/Pasta

[johnna holloway]

Johnnae llyn Lewis sends greetings.

Suggest to your friend that he needs to read the two articles
by Charles Perry in PPC #9 entitled "The Oldest Mediterranean
Noodle: A Cautionary Tale." pp.42-45. 1981. and
"Notes on Persian Pasta" PPC #10; pp. 48-49. 1982.

Or since that is a bit of a bother take a look at

http://www.mrsleeperspasta.com/pasta_101.html for an article

entitled PASTA 101 which seems to reproduce an article entitled

 PASTA: Where It Came From and How It Got Here
by Corby Kummer
from "The Atlantic Monthly," July, 1986.

That should explain the pasta problem.

Johnna Holloway


Gwynydd Of Culloden wrote:
>
> I was having a discussion with a friend and he happened to mention that
> "Marco Polo brought noodles back from China".  I told him that I really
> didn't think it was true but, when he asked, I couldn't tell him what the
> earliest known European recipe for pasta was.  Can anyone help here?
>
> (Oh, he also said that MP brought back gunpowder ... any ideas on this one?)
>
> Gwynydd
>
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