The World's Oldest Pasta Shape Would Be Unrecognizable Today - Chowhound

Written references to pasta appeared in the Middle East long before Italy, with the earliest known reference to boiled noodles outside of Asia coming from the fifth-century Jerusalem Talmud. It's also thought that Arabs were the first to dry noodles, which they did to preserve the food for travel. Some of the basic long pasta shapes, like spaghetti and vermicelli, are thought to have been invented in the Arab…