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Thursday, October 13, 2005 → by Danieru
Japan's recent announcement to send noodles where no noodles have gone before surely means the future of noodle technology is looking bright. But what of the past? Step in, The Origin of Noodles, courtesy of the BBC:"The remains of the world's oldest noodles have been unearthed in China. The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood.Tracing the evolution of human food through the discovery of Late Neolithic noodles sure makes my stomach growl - rAmen.
Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old...
...Professor Houyuan Lu said: "Prior to the discovery of noodles at Lajia, the earliest written record of noodles is traced to a book written during the East Han Dynasty sometime between AD 25 and 220, although it remained a subject of debate whether the Chinese, the Italians, or the Arabs invented it first.
Prof Kam-biu Liu said: "Our discovery indicates that noodles were first produced in China," the researcher from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, explained to BBC News. " - link
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