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A 2,000-Year-Old Menu Staple Is Peaking in 2020
It’s the Year of the Noodle.
First things first: Couldn’t every year be the Year of the Noodle?
After all, the various strands and shapes fashioned from a base of flour and water are celebrated worldwide—and have been since their earliest beginnings. Experts date pasta’s origins well before the legend of Marco Polo in the late 1200s, all the way back to at least 2,000 years ago during the Han dynasty.