In fact, Italians were probably already quite familiar with pasta. The misconception seems to come from a passage in his famous book, "The Travels of Marco Polo," in which he describes a pasta tree.

There’s a new meme template going viral on Twitter and it may leave you laughing out loud. The ‘screaming pasta’ meme is something that has grabbed the attention of netizens and resulted in ...

Spartak Moscow’s Salvatore Bocchetti has recounted the time Mario Balotelli threw pasta at Italy under-21 team-mate Marco Motta. Balotelli, who joined Nice from Liverpool in the summer ...