Facts about Pasta

• October is National Pasta Month.
• The Chinese are on record as having eaten pasta as early as 5,000 B.C.
• There are morethan 600 pasta shapes being produced world wide.

Where Spaghetti comes from

Spaghetti is now usually made in Italy and in Italian restaurants.

History of spaghetti (Pasta)

The Etruscans had pasta as early as the fourth century B.C. The ancient Romans, Greeks and Egyptians knew about pasta thousands of years ago. In his 1928 book, A Description of the World, Marco Polo tells how the people of China ate vermicelli and lasgna noodles, thus indicating that Italians were already familiar with the pastas. A 1929 issue of The Macaroni Journal, a trade magazine, is said to hav stated the fake claim that Marco Polo had brought pasta to Itaky in 1925.

~My source is a book titled Contrary to Popular Belief by Joey Green

Recipes

Here are some recipes for spaghetti.( Did I spell recipes right?)

• http://www.kitchendaily.com/recipe/easy-spaghetti-and-meatballs-77673/?sem=1&ncid=aolfod00170000000001
• http://allrecipes.com//Recipes/pasta/spaghetti/Main.aspx

Why Spaghetti is my favorite food.

I don't really know why it is my favorite food. It just is. I would always ask my dad if he could make it for my birthday. And so he did.

About Spaghetti's Name

Spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning thin string or twine.