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A cup-o-noodles from the past.


Thousands of years before there was fettucine Alfredo, spaghetti, or Kraft Macaroni macaroni: see pasta.  & Cheese, someone living near me Yellow rover in northwestern China Northwestern China (西北, Xīběi) includes the autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Ningxia and the provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai. See also
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 was eating a bowl of noodles noo·dle 1  
n.
A narrow, ribbonlike strip of dried dough, usually made of flour, eggs, and water.



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1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

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 Houyuan Lu of the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing, the clump of noodles found inside the bowl is 4,000 years old.

The thin, yellow strands are the earliest physical, evidence of noodles ever found. They resemble traditional Chinese La-Mian noodles, which are made by putting and stretching the dough by hand. And the ancient pasta may help settle an old argument. "Chinese people say Marco Polo brought noodles from China back to Italy, and Italians say they had noodles before that," Lu told the Associated Press. "All this has been based on documentary material, on personal, accounts, and menus. But we've been unable to find any actual, material--until now."
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Title Annotation:LEFTOVERS
Publication:New York Times Upfront
Geographic Code:9CHIN
Date:Nov 28, 2005
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