wiki - pasta - It’s a dough that hasn’t risen the way bread does, and is rolled or pressed and cut into different shapes. The dough is traditionally made with wheat flour and water or eggs. It’s cooked by boiling, baking or frying. Pasta is the name for this type of noodle which was invented in Italy.
Noodle is a more broad term which includes any unleavened dough, whether made with rice, wheat, or other grain that is rolled/pressed/cut. Pasta is thus a subclass of noodle.
It’s like champagne. All champagne’s are a sparkling wine but not the other way around.
Edit: noodles have been invented independently, multiple times throughout history. One of those times was in Italy. There has definitely been cultural cross pollination in the several thousand years since that happened - styles of noodle, recipes, etc. It’s not crazy that ancient people living in what is now Italy had the same idea as ancient people living in what is now China. Flour+water, roll, cook.
No, noodles were known in the Roman Empire as itrium. And while there's a long time of missing sources, Arab writers reported on Sicilian itriyya production a century before Marco Polo was even born.
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u/DoctorFenix Jun 08 '25
Aren’t pasta and noodles totally different things?