Best Pasta

[pchang]

Pasta

is rightfully called mien and was invented by my ancestors.

[SlowwHand]

Yeah, yeah. And yak is beef cow. What else you got?

[Nostromo]

Re: Pasta

Originally posted by pchang
is rightfully called mien and was invented by my ancestors.

The Chinese did invent pasta first, but I'm not sure you influenced us. Maybe we invented it on our own, but obviously later than the Chinese.

Though the Chinese were eating noodles as long ago as 2000 BCE, the familiar legend of Marco Polo importing pasta from China is just that—a legend, whose origins lie not in Polo's Travels, but in the newsletter of the National Macaroni Manufacturers Association. The works of the 2nd century CE Greek physician Galen mention itrion, homogenous compounds made up of flour and water.[4] The Jerusalem Talmud records that itrium, a kind of boiled dough,[4] was common in Palestine from the 3rd to 5th centuries CE.[5] A dictionary compiled by the 9th century Syrian physician and lexicographer Isho bar Ali defines itriyya as stringlike pasta shapes made of semolina and dried before cooking, a recognizable ancestor of modern-day dried pasta.[4]

One form of itrion with a long history is laganum (plural lagana), which in Latin refers to a thin sheet of dough.[6] In the 1st century BCE work of Horace, lagana were fine sheets of dough which were fried[7] and were an everyday food.[6] Writing in the 2nd century CE Athenaeus of Naucratis provides a recipe for lagana which he attributes to the 1st century Chrysippus of Tyana: very fine sheets of a dough made of wheat flour and the juice of crushed lettuce, then flavored with spices and deep-fried in oil.[6] An early 5th century cookbook describes a dish called lagana that consisted of several layers of rolled-out dough alternating with meat stuffing and baked in an oven, a recognizable ancestor of modern-day Lasagne.[6]

[Adalbertus]

Originally posted by nostromo


Take a glass of water with...? without Loni? Is this a wordplay with Caneloni?

I took some German lessons, but I suck as you can see

It is. Nobody really knows what loni is. So I prefer water.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by nostromo


Take a glass of water with...? without Loni? Is this a wordplay with Caneloni?

I took some German lessons, but I suck as you can see

Yes, it's a word play (not a great one, though).
"Rather a glass of water than a jug of 'Loni'"...

[pchang]

You are all obviously pasta noobs

you have no knowledge of the different kinds of wheat or the effect of dies used for extrusion or even about proper drying methods.

[Saras]

I got myself a pasta machine. Now I need some durum wheat semolina.

[Dinner]

Gnocchi is a really good pasta too. The potato just makes it so different.

[pchang]

Gnocchi is not pasta

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gnocchi+is+not+pasta

[Japher]

yeah, gnocchi isn't pasta, but it is good...

[Dinner]

It's pasta like and is really good with sardines.

[Lord Avalon]

from the Wiki article

In Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, countries where Italian cuisine is especially popular, gnocchi (known as ñoquis in Argentina and Uruguay or nhoque in Brazil) are traditionally eaten on the 29th day of each month. This was the day before payday, when people were at their poorest. Gnocchi made a cheap and hearty meal. ...

In a curious reversal of meaning, in Argentine and Uruguayan slang ñoqui has also become a way to denote a government employee that is listed in the payroll but only shows up to collect his or her paycheck around the 29th of each month.

[b etor]

Originally posted by Oerdin
It's pasta-ish and is really good with black pepper.

fixed