Pasta and Pizza

Legend has it that pasta was invented in China and introduced to the West by Marco Polo but Chinese historians maintain that it came to them from the West. Whatever the truth, pasta has been eaten for centuries, and a form of pasta was even recorded at the time of the ancient Greeks. Now, above all, pasta is the gastronomic god of Italy, but noodles are just as popular in Asia, and there are the udon of Japan, the pierogi of Poland, the spätzel of Germany, the nouilles of France, even the tel’meni of Siberia – and many, many more.