{"id":10052,"date":"2016-12-18T16:25:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-origins-of-pasta\/"},"modified":"2016-12-18T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T16:25:49","slug":"the-origins-of-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-origins-of-pasta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Pasta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/historical-nonfiction.tumblr.com\/post\/154137068452\/the-origins-of-pasta\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">historical-nonfiction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pasta, as we know it today, can only be made from <i>triticum turgidum var. durum<\/i>, or \u201cdurum wheat.\u201d Because of its high gluten content, this type of wheat allows hard, dry pasta with a long, safe shelf life. Because the ancient Etruscans and Romans did not know about durum wheat, they could not have invented pasta.<\/p>\n<p>That honor likely goes to the Arabs. In a dictionary by Syrian physician and lexicographer Isho bar Ali published in the 900s, we have something called \u201c<i>itriyya<\/i>\u201d \u2013 string-like pasta shapes made of semolina and dried before cooking. This early Arabic version made its way to Sicily a few centuries later, where it was called <i>triyakh<\/i>. However, there is still debate today over whether the Sicilians had pasta introduced by their Arabic invaders, or independently invented it, and just picked up the name.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>historical-nonfiction: Pasta, as we know it today, can only be made from triticum turgidum var. durum, or \u201cdurum wheat.\u201d Because of its high gluten content, this type of wheat allows hard, dry pasta with a long, safe shelf life. Because the ancient Etruscans and Romans did not know about durum wheat, they could not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2C8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}