[Sca-cooks] paella

[Micheal]

 I stand corrected thank you just increased the field of research by another 
entire nationality. Was running on the wrong base idea.  I will have to 
resett the parameters. I was not thinking of Roman Italy either actually but 
much  later.
 Cealian
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] paella


> 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
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