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Did you know that pasta is one of the oldest culinary inventions Until recently, it was thought that dry pasta had been brought to Italy by Marco Polo in 1279 but the discovery of even earlier manuscripts mentioning dry pasta has disproved this theory.

In any case, the ancient Greeks used fresh pasta. They used the word laganon to describe a large flat sheet of pasta cut into strips. Hence the Latin laganum, mentioned by Cicero, and the more recent lasagne which we know today.

There is more tangible evidence that pasta may have been prepared as long ago as the 4th century BC: an Etruscan bas-relief discovered by archaeologists in a grave depicts some tools commonly used in pasta-making.

Another theory suggests that this food came from Arabian Sicily: the historian Al-Idrisi reports that a thread-like food made of flour, called itriyah, which means "spago" (string), was made there.