If you can boil water, you can make pasta, and that's just one of the many reasons that it's ranked among the most popular foods in the world for thousands of years.
But where does it all start?
When did the first human beings start passing pasta to their friends and neighbors?
The answer is a little more complicated than you may expect.
So today, we're twirling up the history of pasta.
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According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, pasta is any of several starchy food preparations made from semolina, the granular product obtained from the endosperm of a type of wheat called durum, but for those of you who prefer a definition that doesn't include the word sperm, pasta is food made from sheets of unleavened wheat dough cut into any number of shapes, sometimes fun little Shrek ones.
That dough, at its most basic, is made from water and semolina flour, although eggs are often added to the mixture to enhance the color and richness.
