Roasted Vegetable Pasta

Italian food is varied and rich in several aspects. Pasta however has been the pride and glory through much of its history. When Italians started emigrating and settling all around the world, they brought their pasta and it found its way into local life style, a worldwide food that we take for granted today. The origins of Pastas are as tangled as spaghetti tossed in a bowl. There is some validity in the belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans had discovered some sort of flattened dough – a broad noodle called ‘laganon’ in Greek. It is significant that this was not boiled as we boil lasagna noodles, but roasted on hot stones or in ovens – more like what we would think of as pizza.
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