Pasta Fun…….pasta Facts……

By Author: Lucas Fuller
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Did you know…….
There are more than 600 pasta shapes produced worldwide.
Your cooking water should be rapidly bubbling, heavily salted – a bit like drinking from the ocean – this is what gives pasta flavour
Love is everything
Eat immediately with joy, gusto and noise, no manners needed
Pasta does not originate from Italy. Etruscans cave drawings were found dating back to 400BC showing the process of pasta being made
The Chinese are on record as having eaten pasta as early as 5000BC
Firstly, it has been shared that a true Italian man would kill for less, steal a man’s pasta and you dance with your life. Imagine a first date, you cheekily, without invitation stick your fork in eagerly to try a mouthful of this delight. Well it may very well be your first and last date with this man.
Three simple, staple, store cupboard ingredients
Always cook pasta with the lid off the pan
Pasta meaning paste
Always put the pasta into the sauce, never the sauce into the pasta, then they will come together as one
Wood is important – tables and rolling pins
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... In the thirteenth century the Pope set quality standards for pasta
October is national pasta month
Cooked al dente (al-Den-tay) literally means to the tooth, which really means offering some resistance to the tooth but tender to the bite
Most pasta is made using wheat products. Other types of pasta are made using ingredients such as rice, barley, corn and beans
To cook 1 billion pounds in weight of pasta you would need 2,021,452,000 gallons of water
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