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Pasta History & Italian Food Myths: How it Went From Street Food & Kneaded With Bare Feet to America's Favorite Comfort Food? | Ep. 87"
What's Pasta Really All About? Ancient Noodles, Busted Myths, Bare Feet & Why 4,000 Years Later Pasta Still Holds a Place on Our Dinner Table.
Did you know that it was once common practice to knead pasta dough with your bare feet? That tons of people were tricked into thinking spaghetti grew on trees. And one of America's Founding Fathers smuggled a pasta machine across the Atlantic, then made it even better! This is not the back story you think you know about pasta.
In this episode of Family Tree Food and Stories, hosts Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely trace pasta's 4,000-year history and…
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