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Pasta : the story of a universal food / Silvano Serventi and Françoise Sabban ; translated by Antony Shugaar.

By:

Serventi, Silvano [author.]

Contributor(s):

Sabban, Françoise [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Arts and traditions of the tablePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2002Description: xxi, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0231124422
9780231124423

Uniform titles:

Pasta. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

641.822

LOC classification:

TX809.M17 S4713 2002

Contents:

Note Concerning a Definition of Pasta Products -- Introduction: In the Beginning Was Wheat -- 1. The Infancy of an Art -- 2. The Time of the Pioneers -- 3. From the Hand to the Extrusion Press -- 4. The Golden Age of the Pasta Manufactory -- 5. The Industrial Age -- 6. Pasta Without Borders -- 7. The Time of Plenty -- 8. The Taste for Pasta -- 9. China: Pasta's Other Homeland -- 10. The Words of Pasta.

Summary: Exploding the myth that Marco Polo brought pasta to Italy from China, this title shows that pasta existed in various cultures in various forms long before its appearance in the West. It chronicles the infancy of various forms of pasta and the effects of technology on pasta production.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	641.822 SER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Issued	09/10/2024	A296875B

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exploding the myth that Marco Polo brought pasta to Italy from China, this title shows that pasta existed in various cultures in various forms long before its appearance in the West. It chronicles the infancy of various forms of pasta and the effects of technology on pasta production.

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