Editing Marco Polo (section)

=== Pasta myth ===
There is a legend about Marco Polo importing [[pasta]] from China; however, it is actually a [[List of common misconceptions|popular misconception]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilovepasta.org/faqs.html|title=National Pasta Association |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320211605/http://www.ilovepasta.org/faqs.html |archive-date=20 March 2012|url-status=dead}} article ''FAQs'' section "Who "invented" pasta?"; "The story that it was Marco Polo who imported noodles to Italy and thereby gave birth to the country's pasta culture is the most pervasive myth in the history of Italian food." (Dickie 2008, p. 48).</ref> originating with the ''Macaroni Journal'', published by a food industry association with the goal of promoting the use of pasta in the United States.<ref>S. Serventi, F. Sabban ''La pasta. Storia e cultura di un cibo universale'', VII. Economica Laterza 2004</ref> Marco Polo describes in his book a food similar to "[[lasagna]]", but he uses a term with which he was already familiar. Pasta had already been invented in Italy a long time before Marco Polo's travels to Asia.<ref name="Serventi 2002 10">{{cite book |title=Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food |last1=Serventi |first1=Silvano |date=2002 |publisher=Columbia University Press |translator-first=Antony |translator-last=Shugaar |isbn=978-0-231-12442-3 |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/pastastoryofuniv00silv/page/10 10] |first2=Françoise |last2=Sabban |url=https://archive.org/details/pastastoryofuniv00silv/page/10 }}</ref> According to the newsletter of the [[National Pasta Association|National Macaroni Manufacturers Association]]<ref name="Serventi 2002 10" /> and food writer [[Jeffrey Steingarten]],<ref name=Steingarten>{{cite book|author=Jeffrey Steingarten|title=The Man Who Ate Everything|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T33d0IIwwaQC|year=1998|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-375-70202-0|page=260}}</ref> the [[durum wheat]] was introduced by Arabs from Libya, [[Emirate of Sicily|during their rule]] over [[Sicily]] in the late 9th century, thus predating Marco Polo's travels by about four centuries.<ref name=Steingarten /> Steingarten also mentioned that [[Jane Grigson]] believed the Marco Polo story to have originated in the 1920s or 30s in an advertisement for a Canadian spaghetti company.<ref name=Steingarten />