Curious photos of how they made pasta at the beginning of the last century

For a long time, only the rich ate pasta and it was considered a real luxury item in Italy. The high price was due to manual labor: the dough was kneaded for a very long time, and labor was expensive. But pasta gained popularity in the XIV-XV centuries, and all thanks to its versatility: dried pasta could be stored for a long time, no special conditions were required for them. Therefore, pasta became the main food for travelers who went to conquer the New World. So they spread, literally a century later they could be seen around the world.

And when production became mass, the price of them generally fell. The first dough kneading machine was invented in Naples at the beginning of the 17th century, and after a few decades factories began to appear throughout Europe. But still, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the production of pasta was more complicated than now: spaghetti was cut by hand and dried directly on the street. We found rare photographs taken in the first half of the last century showing how pasta was made in pasta factories in Italy, Russia, the UK and the USA. And this is an exciting sight!

In a British pasta factory.

What a tender job!

And this paste, apparently, was with the brackish aroma of the sea. But how else, because they dry it right on the beach. 1949

A man hangs dried spaghetti in one of the American factories. 1943

The art of creating tagliatelle. 1939, London.

Curious photographs from an Italian factory taken in 1932: a man hangs spaghetti to dry.

Kneading dough.

At that time, a stick was required to bend dried pasta.

And these are unique shots taken at the end of the 1920s: boys take spaghetti hanging on sticks outside to dry them in the sun.

They seem to like this work.

Spaghetti are drying like linen!

Pasta production in Naples.

Just imagine - to see such a picture on the street during a walk.

The youngest employees.

Pasta factory in Russia.

Drying pasta somewhere in Italy.

Pasta factory.

At the farmer's market.

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