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Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food

✍️ Serventi, Silvano
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🏛 Columbia University Press 📅 2002 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780231124423
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Exploding the myth that Marco Polo discovered pasta in China and brought it back to Italy, this volume shows that pasta has existed in various forms throughout Middle Eastern, Asian, and even North African culinary cultures long before its appearance in the West.

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