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Food – Pasta

Type Food made from wheat flour and water or eggs
Developed By Probably the Romans
First Confirmed Docmentation 1200 to 1300 CE
Main Ingredient Durum wheat flour

Learning Point

  • Pasta is one of the main categories of Italian food, with people there eating more pasta per person than anywhere else in the world. It is made from durum wheat flour, and is now easy and cheap to produce, though it hasn’t always been that way. The Romans may have developed something similar to pasta.

Project

  • Draw a picture of you and your family eating your favourite type of pasta.
  • Overview
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Pasta Spaghetti
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Types of Pasta
No machine-readable author provided. ChiemseeMan assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Types of Pasta
No machine-readable author provided. ChiemseeMan assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Types of Pasta
No machine-readable author provided. ChiemseeMan assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Types of Pasta
Späth Chr. (ChiemseeMan), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Types of Pasta
No machine-readable author provided. ChiemseeMan assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Types of Pasta
Späth Chr. (user:ChiemseeMan), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Location

Originates From Italy

Fun Facts

  • The Romans mention something called lagana, which may have been like pasta.
  • It used to be expensive because it took a lot of work to produce, but now is easily produced quickly.
  • The first pasta factory opened in Venice in 1740.
  • Water mills and stone grinders in the 1800s made pasta production a lot simpler and quicker.

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