Part 3/10:
Pasta in Broth: cooked into a soup
Pasta al Forno: baked as part of a larger dish
Western culture may often interchange the terms pasta and noodles, but linguistically and culturally, they differ. Asian noodles, made from various ingredients and stretching techniques, predate pasta, with origins tracing back to the Shang Dynasty in China around 1700-1100 BCE.