Community Cookbook: Pasta dishes celebrate flavors from around the globe

Community Cookbook: Pasta dishes celebrate flavors from around the globe

How many of us grew up believing, and perhaps still do, that Marco Polo introduced pasta to Italy after his historic trip to China? Food historians agree this story is a myth. The earliest known reference linking Polo to pasta occurred in a 1929 magazine advertisement published by a pasta manufacturer. Pasta likely migrated to Italy via established trade routes connecting the two continents, arriving in Sicily and Spain before reaching “the boot” of mainland Italy.