pasta的英文介绍

pasta: 面团(用以制意大利通心粉,细面条等) 《微笑pasta》是一部电视剧，微笑pasta是他们经营的一家意大利面店的名字。

Pasta is an Italian food made from a dough using flour, water and/or eggs. The dough is shaped and can be stored. Pasta is boiled prior to consumption. There are many variations of shapes and ingredients that are all called pasta. A few examples include spaghetti (solid cylinders), macaroni (tubes or hollow cylinders), fusilli (swirls), and lasagna (sheets). Pasta can also denote dishes in which pasta products are the primary ingredient, served with sauce or seasonings. The word comes from Italian pasta which shares its origins with "paste", meaning "dough", "pasta", or "pastry" as in "small cake".IngredientsThere are many ingredients that can be used to make pasta dough. They range from a simple flour and water mixture, to those that call for the addition of eggs, spices and cheeses, etc to the dough.Under Italian law, dry pasta can only be made from durum wheat semolina flour. This flour has a yellow tinge in color. Italian pasta is traditionally cooked al dente (Italian: "to the teeth", meaning not too soft). Abroad, dry pasta is frequently made from other types of flour (such as farina), but this yields a softer product, which cannot be cooked al dente.Particular varieties of pasta may also use other grains and/or milling methods to make the flour. Some pasta varieties, such as Pizzoccheri, are made from buckwheat flour. Various types of fresh pasta include eggs (pasta all'uovo). Gnocchi are often listed among pasta dishes, although they are quite different in ingredients (mainly milled potatoes).Though the Chinese were eating noodles as long ago as 2000 BC (this is known thanks to the discovery of a well-preserved bowl of noodles over 4000 years old[1]), the familiar legend of Marco Polo importing pasta from China is just that—a legend[citation needed], whose origins lie not in Polo's Travels, but in the newsletter of the National Macaroni Manufacturers Association.[2] The works of the 2nd century CE Greek physician Galen mention itrion, homogenous compounds made up of flour and water.[3] The Jerusalem Talmud records that itrium, a kind of boiled dough,[3] was common in Palestine from the 3rd to 5th centuries AD[4] A dictionary compiled by the 9th century Syrian physician and lexicographer Isho bar Ali defines itriyya as stringlike pasta shapes made of semolina and dried before cooking, a recognizable ancestor of modern-day dried pasta.[3]

意大利面的英文简介:Introduction of spaghetti .

你先看看吧！Origin:While many believe that spaghetti (or even pasta in some accounts) originated in China (where long thin noodles have a lengthy history), some now assert that the reading of a lost Marco Polo manuscript which led to this belief, was in fact an inaccurate Latin translation. Historically people in Italy ate pasta in the form of gnocchi-like dumplings – pasta fresca eaten as soon as it was prepared. It has now been asserted that the Arabs who populated Southern Italy (around the 12th Century) were the first to develop the innovation of working pasta from grain into thin long forms, capable of being dried out and stored for months or years prior to consumption. Legend has it that Cicero, the famous Roman orator was fond of "laganum", an ancient tagliatelle. The Saracens, originally from North Africa, invaded southern Italy in the 9th century and occupied Sicily for 200 hundred years. Pasta is now associated with Italians as a whole. The popularity of pasta spread to the whole of Italy after the establishment of pasta factories in the 19th century, enabling the mass production of pasta for the Italian market.

History of PastaIf you hear the word pasta, you think Italy, but it’s said that pasta actually goes back to the Etruscans (400 B.C.). It is believed that they used to prepare the first lasagna made of spelt which is a cereal like wheat, but far more resistant against bad weather and diseases. (An Etruscan tomb, found 48 kilometers north of Rome, showed a group of natives making what appears to be pasta).Later years, the Romans made lagane (A kind of lasagna). Lagane was a very simple dough made of water and flour. Lagane is still used today in the Center and South of Italy to call some kind of pasta. Greek mythology suggests that the Greek God Vulcan invented a device that made strings of dough (the first spaghetti!)But what about the belief that the Great Venetian Explorer, Marco Polo, brought pasta to Italy? When Marco Polo was in the East in 1279 a.d. the will of Ponzio Baestone, a Genoan soldier, was drafted. In this will he requested "bariscella peina de macarone" – a small basket of … maccheroni! This all happened 16 years before Marco Polo returned from China.In the 11th century, the Arabs brought pasta around the Mediterranean basin, but spread to Italy due to the very agreeable climate. Then, in the 17th century in Naples, pasta with Tomato arrived in Europe after America was discovered.Although pasta became very popular, it didn’t go onto the princes’ tables, because since it’s discovery it was eaten using hands. It was near 1700 that one of King Ferdinand II’s chamberlains had the bright idea of using a fork with 4 short prongs, that became a common practice. Since then pasta was also served during the Court’s banquets all over Italy, and from here its world tour began.The U.S. President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) loved pasta and made it known all over the United States. It seemed that he fell in love with a certain dish he sampled in Naples while he served as the U.S. Ambassador to France. In fact, he promptly ordered crates of "maccheroni", along with a pasta-making machine to be send back to the States.In the beginning of the last century, the first, rudementary, machines for its mass-production started in Naples. But why in Naples? Because the most important moment of its production is the drying process. Naples’ surroundings and hinterland were offering the ideal environment for this production. Today modern technology allows the standardisation of pasta production and the reproduction of the ideal climatic conditions, so pasta’s production spread out in a lot of Nations.This overall reproduction makes pasta the most known Italian food all around the world.

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