Sunday, March 25, 2012

History of Pasta

Foods like pasta are often found in various places in the world since ancient times, especially in areas with a population that makes wheat and cereal as a main dish. Milled wheat was often cooked as a porridge or mashed into flour and made ​​bread. Pasta is the most likely alternative to porridge or bread, because pasta is a food preservation is made without the need to be cooked.

In Europe, the oldest written record of noodles similar food found in the Etruscan tomb decorations in central Italy from 400 BC. In China, noodles have known since 2000 BC based on the results of excavations at the site Lajia (western China), located on the banks of the Yellow River. Below the soil layer of thick loess soil at the dig site that has been damaged by earthquakes and floods ditermukan yellow noodles in a clay pot upside down. Noodles about half a meter long with a diameter of 3 millimeters. The analysis showed starch noodles made ​​from millet seeds.

 Pasta is a processed food that is used in Italian cuisine, made ​​from a mixture of flour, water, eggs, and salt to form a dough that can be formed into a variety of sizes and shapes. Pasta made ​​various dishes after cooking by boiling. In Indonesia, a popular type of pasta such as spaghetti, macaroni and lasagna.

In English, the pasta is a term for various types of cuisine with one of the main ingredients flavored pasta and sauce. Pasta comes from the Italian "pasta alimentare" which means the food dough. In broad terms, "paste" can mean all the dough like bread dough, pastry, or cake. In Italian, which means the pasta foods such as noodles called pastasciutta.

Pasta made ​​from semolina flour mill that is the result of durum wheat mixed eggs so little bright yellow, and when cooked properly will result in slightly chewy texture.




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