Pasta Plus

October, 1972

Pasta PlusIn the ordinary way, you sit down and eat a dish of spaghetti with tomato sauce and think nothing of it. But the fact is, the dish is the culmination of hundreds of years of invention, exploration and common sense; indeed, it is a marriage of the products of two hemispheres.It is legend--and it will serve--that Marco Polo, when he returned from the court of the great khan in China at the end of the 13th Century, brought with him, among other treasures, noodles. That is, the basic recip...