The word Pasta means a mixture of cereal, flour and water, manipulated to obtain various consistencies. In the ancient times, Italy concurred to make known this kind of food in the world: even the ancient Romans ate dishes of fresh pasta. They liked pasta arranged in thin layers with sauce, like baked lasagna.
Arabs modified the Pasta in an elongated shape; first they dried the pasta for storage and then they cooked it in boiling water. In Italy, this fashion of keeping the pasta was initially brought by the Arabs in Sicily.