Are they really from China?

The famous Spaghetti were born in the 6th century a.c. in the Indus valley, a territory which today largely corresponds to Pakistan. Initially, however, the spaghetti was a simple waste, produced by the processing of pasta in the royal kitchens of the Sultan of Bahawalpur, so it did not have a name.

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One day, the young son of the Sultan, observing how hard and straight it was, exclaimed: “What is it? It is strutting like my father’s soldiers! ” Here the word “spaghetti” began to take shape: in that region of the world, in fact, the term sipahee was used to refer to a soldier.

Buddha himself spread its fame throughout India, to which the Sultan offered a plate of sipahee. The evidence of this episode is preserved in a bas-relief of the Buddhist monastery of Kapilavastu.

The first Italian to eat Spaghetti?

In the 8th century, Marco Polo, returning from Catai, was hosted by a Turkish merchant, who offered him a local dish with a delicious flavor, spaghetti with prawns, called spahi in that place. The italian explorer was so impressed that he asked for the recipe and once back in Venice he did everything to spread it.

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