Weird And Wacky Holidays

National Spaghetti Day - How it Came to Be: January 4th, Ep4Welcome to episode 4 of the Weird, Wacky, and Traditional Holiday Show: How They Came to Be”. I’m your host, Stephen Carter. With each daily episode, we identify at least one of the official or unofficial holidays celebrated that day and explore how that day came to be. Today’s featured holiday is, well, I gave it away already, National Spaghetti Day!Here are a few fun facts about pasta in general and my favorite food in particular.•There’s evidence that food similar to pasta noodles was eaten in China starting about 5,000 B.C.•The first written record of what we now call pasta appeared in the Jewish Talmud in the 5th Century A.D.•There is evidence a form of pasta similar to today’s spaghetti appeared in Sicily in the 12 Century A.D.•Contrary to popular history, Marco Pollo did not introduce pasta to Europeans. •Thomas Jefferson brought pasta back to the United States when he returned from Naples, Italy in 1789. •Spaghetti became popular in the Unite