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Article: Long Live Pasta, Salvation of the World!; Museum Extols Virtues of the Italian Staple, as Long as It's Al Dente
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- The Washington Post
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- July 7, 1995
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Let's get one thing straight. The Chinese did not invent pasta.
When Marco Polo observed noodles on his trip to 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 invented over the years. It's bad for the taste, bad for
digestion, and if you believe the propaganda lining the walls of the
National Museum of Pasta Foods here, bad for mankind.
The pasta museum is tucked ...