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The mystery has been solved

   Posted by: gargi   in And Finally ...

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… right up there with the other great mysteries that include why God(dess) decided to create the universe (she was having a bad day :); to what happens to the other sock (the one that never came back from the washing machine); to why does your sambhar never taste like the one your mother makes (or his mother makes); is the mystery that almost caused a war between Italy and China. The mystery was on who invented noodles - China or Italy. Obviously both sides claime primacy in noodlegiri.

Finally, the matter can be closed. Along with gunpowder and paper, it was the Chinese who invented noodles.

…50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood.Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old.
Scientists tell the journal Nature that the noodles were made using grains from millet grass - unlike modern noodles, which are made with wheat flour.

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Charu
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Harini, I read the news yesterday and heaved a sigh of relief. finally! the question that has been keeping me awake for nights - where did noodles come from? and what happened to that buried pot of millet grass noodles :)
what I found more interesting here were the greater sock and sambhar questions - yes, yes. why?

October 14th, 2005 at 10:13 am
Akshay
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I remember reading it about is on my rss feed reader yesterday, the first thing thought the came to mind is that human ideas are so fluid that they travel such great distances changing cultures so significantly that they change all together.
It’s like the story of Tomatoes and Potatoes in India, even though they’re are have been introduced to India in the last 2 or so centuries our cuisine and tastes seem to think they’ve around for centuries.

October 14th, 2005 at 12:34 pm

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