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Article: PASTA MUSEUM COMMEMORATES GREAT FOOD.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 16, 1995
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Byline: DANIEL WILLIAMS Washington Post
ROME Let's get one thing straight. The Chinese did not invent pasta. When Marco Polo observed noodles in the court of Kublai Khan, he was describing a food the Italians had been chewing on for at least a century.
So there. Now another thing. Don't overcook the spaghetti. Or the vermicelli, penne or farfalle. Or the cravattine, nidi, stellette, puntine, linguini, fusilli, tagliatelle, rigatoni, ravioli, ziti, capelli d'angelo or any other of the 300 or so shapes and sizes of pasta. It's bad for the taste, bad for digestion, and if you believe the propaganda lining the walls of the National Museum of Pasta ...