[Sca-cooks] paella

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Cealian Of Moray wrote:
>   I tend to believe noodles would have been a more modern adaptation. Less
>likely to be period then say rice or peas, beans.  Not sure how fast noodles
>would have spread form Italy into the Iberian peninsula.

Why would noodles have to come to the Iberian peninsula from Italy?

The Muslim arrived in the Iberian Peninsula in 711. There's a long 
history of noodles in Islamic cuisine, both long and short noodles. 
And the non-Muslim Iberians could learn from the Muslims, since there 
was a great deal of cultural sharing and intermarriage.

As for noodles in Italy, there are some recipes that suggest that the 
Romans had some noodly dishes, using short pasta bits. Since the 
Romans had long been in the Iberian Peninsula before the Fall of 
Rome, it's conceivable that short pasta bits came to Iberia that way.
-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita