October 17, 2022 – Pasta

Happy National Pasta Day! Did you know pasta traces its roots back to the Shang Dynasty in ancient China?? The first evidence of pasta in Italy dates from the 13th or 14th century. Today there are more than 300 shapes and varieties of pasta. American’s favorite shape is spaghetti, followed by penne and rotini. Not surprisingly, Italians eat more pasta than any other country, eating around 60 pounds per person per year, compared to the U.S., where the average person eats 26 pounds of pasta a year. Learn more here.