Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Who first introduced spaghetti to Italy? Well, you often hear that it was Marco Polo who introduced pasta to Italy after his ...

Then the third version relates to pasta’s origin to Greece, on the theory that the word “macaroni” came from the Greek word “makar,” meaning “blessed,” as used when referring to sacramental food. In ...

When Virginio Merola, the mayor of Bologna, visited London earlier this year, something made him very angry. A restaurant was advertising a “speciality of the house”: spaghetti bolognese for £6.95.