A while back I read the “Adventures of Ibn Butatta,” a modern-prose translation of “The Riylah of Ibn Butatta.” It’s a travelogue by a Islamic scholar / adventurer, who made it to Indonesia and possibly China going on a thousand years ago.
At one point he’s traveling through northern India, possibly in the Himalayas. And the party he’s with has, for dinner, macaroni. No word on what sauce they used.
Pasta has been around a long time!
