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Going past pasta
Updated On: 28 May, 2019 07:00 AM IST | | Shunashir Sen
There's more to Italian cuisine than pizza and pasta. We got chefs from two different regions of the country to tell us all about it
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There is an interesting theory about how pasta was introduced to Italian cuisine, though it's a contested explanation. Apparently, Marco Polo was the person who brought it to the country in the late 13th century. The enigmatic Venetian merchant and explorer had travelled to China, and the noodles prevalent there served as the inspiration for the Italian staple. This is what some schoolchildren in the country were taught for many years.
But now, there's another theory accepted as more credible, which says that Polo didn't quite discover pasta as much as rediscovering a noodle that already existed in Italy before his time. This noodle was called lagane (which the modern-day lasagna gets its name from) and was found in Italy as early as the 1st century AD, before the Arabs arrived around 800 years later and spread it throughout the land.
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