The Art of Italian Pasta Cooking: A Look into Its Evolution

The History and Evolution of Italian Pasta Cooking
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If you look into the history of Italian pasta cooking, you will see that the food used as a staple in the Italian diet has not always been so. While till the 1500's, macaroni (the term used for any dried pasta) was considered an exotic food, cooking pasta in an Italian household was considered very expensive chiefly due to the high costs and the time-intensive labor required for making pasta and was therefore reserved only for the upper class.
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