1. The name pasta came from the Latin word for dough.
2. Pasta was known in Ancient Greece and China thousands of years before the Italians had it.
3. There are more than 600 named pasta shapes.
4. “Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.” (Sophia Loren).
5. Italians eat most pasta, averaging about 26 kilos per person per year. Venezuela comes second, way behind on 13.2 kilos.
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6. Spaghetti means strings, orecchiette: small ears, vermicelli: small worms, farfalle: butterflies, linguine: little tongues and ravioli: turnip.
7. The word spaghetti in English was first recorded in a cookery book of 1845. Spaghetti westerns were first called by that name in 1969.
8. When first used in English in the 18th century a macaroni was an over-dressed dandy or fop who loved imitating European fashions.
9. The European Patent Office lists 797 spaghettirelated inventions, including 21 types of curved or rotating fork for eating spaghetti.
10. The world produces about 13.5 million tons of pasta a year of which 3.3 million tons is from Italy