Earliest appearances in the English language are in the 1830s, the word pasta comes from Italian pasta, in turn from Latin pasta, latinisation of the Greek παστά, pasta. 展开

Evidence of Etruscans making pasta dates back to 400 BCE. The first concrete information on pasta products in Italy dates to the 13th or 14th centuries. In the 1st century AD writings of Horace, lagana (sg.: laganum) were fi… 展开

• Long pasta
• Short pasta
• Short pasta
• Minute pasta pastina, used for soups
• Pasta all'uovo (lit. 'egg pasta') … 展开

Pasta, whether dry or fresh, is eaten after cooking it in hot water. For Italian pasta, which is unsalted, salt is added to the cooking water. This is not the case for Asian wheat noodles, such as udon and lo mein, … 展开

Ingredients to make pasta dough include semolina flour, egg, salt and water. Flour is first mounded on a flat surface and then a well in the pile of flour is created. Egg is then poured into the well and a fork is used to mix the egg a… 展开