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Are All Noodles Pasta?

A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich

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The Marco Polo Myth About Pasta Noodles

The ancient Greeks were also making their own type of pasta about 3,000 years ago. A lot of people may think of rice as the dominant starch in East Asia and for a majority, it was but also long history of wheat noodles. The ingredients of like mien, which is wheat noodle and spaghetti, which is Giada de Laurentiis' favorite noodle are damn near identical except for maybe some lye water that is used to cook them.

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