NATIONAL PASTA DAY National Pasta Day is celebrated annually on October 17th. October is also recognized as National Pasta Month. Pasta is a type of noodle of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily and first attested in English in 1874. Typically it is made from an unleavened dough of a durum wheat flour that is mixed with water or eggs and formed into sheets or various shapes, then cooked and served in a variety of dishes. Pasta is divided into two categories; dried or fresh. Fresh pasta was originally produced by hand but today, many varieties of fresh pasta are commercially produced by large scale machines and the products are widely available in supermarkets. Dried and fresh pasta come in a number of shapes and varieties. There are 310 specific forms known variably by over 1300 names having been recently documented. In Italy, names of specific pasta shapes or types vary with locale. Example: Cavatelli is known by 28 different names depending on the region and town.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:00:01 +0000
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