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Noodle
A noodle is a
thin strip of pasta,
usually cut or extruded from some kind of  dough.
It is the basic unit
in dishes like spaghetti,
linguine,
soba,
and udon.
The term often refers to moist, cooked pasta, since it has
connotations of curviness and slipperiness, but also to
dried noodles that must be reconstituted by boiling or
soaking in water. The word noodle derives from Latin
nodus (knot), via German
Nudel (noodle, pasta).
The Chinese, Arab
and Italian
peoples all claimed to have been the first to create
this string-like food, though the first written account of
noodles is from the East
Han Dynasty between 25 and 220 CE. In October
2005, the oldest noodles yet discovered were found at
the Lajia
site (Qijia
culture) along the Yellow
River in Qinghai,
China. The 4,000-year-old noodles appear to have been made
from foxtail
millet and broomcorn
millet.
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