The origin of pasta gives rise to several speculations. Though people of diverse cultures ate some sort of noodle-like food made mostly of grain, the vital ingredient of pasta is durum wheat semolina, with high gluten content. Moreover, the technique of making it allows the resultant dough to be highly malleable, resulting in the many different shapes – ziti, spaghetti, ravioli – that characterize “pasta.”
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