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• Made with durum wheat, macaroni is commonly cut in short lengths; curved macaroni may be referred to as elbow macaroni.
• Here's the key to how macaroni is made. The warm, pliable dough is passed through an extruder, a large rotating screw that pushes the pasta through metal dies which is then cut to the correct length using large blades.
• There's some debate over how the macaroni noodle came to be. Some claim that Marco Polo brought the noodles back to Italy after a trip to China in 1274. However, others maintain that the Etruscans (a pre-Roman civilization on the Italian Peninsula) invente