The origin of macaroni

It was Marco Polo who brought the macaroni in China. But the Italians, probably dissatisfied with the fact that the most popular dish in your kitchen have Chinese origin, eventually discovering that in the will of the military Geneve, Punzio Bastone, recorded by tabelião Ugolino Scarpa, on February 2, 1279, 13 years before the arrival of Marco Polo, had, of inheritance, a box of "macarrones", or dry mass. The Americans, however, go further. Guarantee that before the founding of Rome, the pasta was already known.
The Italians were the largest consumers of macaroni and broadcasters around the world. Both that invented more than 500 varieties of types and formats. At the time the Italians incorporated the macaroni noble one ingredient: a grain of wheat flour, which allows the cooking correct.

The macaroni had reached Venice in 1295 by the hands of Marco Polo, where he spent 17 years in China and would have known the macaroni. In his luggage, among other innovations, came a recipe for a dish made with a flour extracted from the bush saga that after cooked, it was cut and dry.
Meanwhile in Italy, in 1279, thus before the return of Marco Polo, was recorded, among other things, that the inventory of Ponzio Bastione left the family, a "basket of pasta".
The word used in the inventory was macaronis, which would be derived from the verb maccari, a dialect of Secília old, which means achatar that, in turn, comes from the Greek makar, which means sacred. The word macaroni was used in the Middle Ages to indicate different types of pasta. The latest version accepted by historians This release refers to the Arabs, who would be the parents of macaroni, leading it to Sicily in the IX century, when conquered the largest Italian island.