Do not have Italian food and whiskey for breakfast

I love Italian food, but it doesn't love me.

wuss!!

Not if it's this !! Worked all day in Foggia Italy and we stopped late that night to eat before going to our hotel. Ordered this and it was served warm.

I chill the pasta in the refrigerator to lower its GI response.

What if you're in Italy? Isn't everything Italian food?

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What if you're in Italy? Isn't everything Italian food?

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What if you're in Italy? Isn't everything Italian food?

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Nope, lots of pasta courtesy of Marco Polo bringing Chinese food to Italy.

The oldest recorded references to noodles come from China, where a 4,000-year-old bowl of millet noodles was discovered at the Lajia archaeological site in northwestern China in 2005. This find, preserved in an overturned clay bowl, proved that China had been making noodles from millet long before wheat became a staple grain in the region. Ancient Chinese texts such as the Han Dynasty records (c. 206 BCE–220 CE) also describe the process of making noodles from various grains, indicating that wheat-based pasta was later introduced and refined over time.

Lot of what I ate as a kid was Roman / Italian grains that were more like barley than wheat.

Middle East played a crucial role in pasta’s development. Arabic culinary traditions from at least the 9th century CE mention a dried pasta known as “itriyya”, which was made from wheat and could be stored for long periods—perfect for trade and long journeys. A 9th-century text by Ibn al-Mibrad from modern-day Iraq describes boiled dough strips resembling vermicelli, one of the earliest clear references to what we might recognize as pasta today. The word itriyya later made its way to Sicily through Arab traders, influencing early Italian pasta-making traditions.

A longer and flatter noodle we recognize today

The Roman Empire also had its own pasta-like dishes. While they did not have the modern pasta we recognize today, they consumed laganae, a form of flat dough sheets that were cut into strips and cooked, similar to lasagna.

Probably true Roman / Italian food we know today

Most real cuisine of any area historically come from simple ingredients in a few miles from consumption. Meats come from areas with grain. Seafood comes from costal areas. Pizza from Italy is all about the dough and sauce (simple, inexpensive ingredients from close by) and is not about cheese and other topping. Red pizza would be more land people and white pizza would be more water people.