I greet you, dear reader! This is the 8th book in the new Cookbooks series: "100 Murray’s Recipes" The origins of pasta is fascinating not only because of interesting facts and myths and legends surrounding them. There are legends, pertinent to the time of the creation of pasta ancient Romans, ascribing them to the creation of the gods. And the ancient sources claim that invented noodles in China and Marco Polo brought them to Italy in 1292 AD However, when Marco said that "discovered" pasta in China, has been implied that he had discovered something new, in fact, he found that the Chinese have noodles "are the same as ours." In the XIX century there was the first company producing pasta, - II Pastifico Buitoni. It was founded in 1827 by a woman named Julia Buitoni. This company still exists today and is one of the largest pasta manufacturer in the world. Currently, the production of pasta is very advanced. With the discovery of electricity were invented machine for mixing dough and electric drying pasta, and the whole process of cooking pasta was fully automated. I'm sure these recipes will help you face the weekend with a smile.