How to make pasta in the first half of the XX century

Pasta-perhaps the most popular Italian dish-originates in Sicily of the XII century. For a long time, it remained a food for the rich and privileged, and only in the XVIII century, industrial production turned pasta into the main cheap product for most Italians. The mass immigration of Italians to America at the beginning of the XX century helped pasta to gain huge popularity outside of Italy and become a national Italian dish. 

However, until the end of the 50s, many people had no idea how it was made, and even believed that pasta grew on trees. We offer you to see what the production of pasta really looked like in 1925-1955, not only in Italy, but also in the UK and the USA.

A worker hangs pasta to dry at a factory in Italy, 1932.

the year is 1932.

Chef makes tagliatelle in King Bomba — one of the largest Italian delicatessen stores in Soho, London, 1939.

An employee of a pasta factory in Russia.

Zelda Albano slices spaghetti at a factory in Holloway, London, 1955.

An employee of the Atlantic Macaroni Company hangs spaghetti for drying at a factory in Long Island City, New York, 1943.

Spaghetti is dried at a pasta factory in Italy.

Approximately 1955.

Employees of the pasta factory.

Young factory workers take out pasta to dry in the yard, 1929.

the year is 1929.

the year is 1929.

Pasta is dried in a factory in Naples, Italy, circa 1925.

Approximately 1925.

the year is 1928.

An Italian factory worker bends dried spaghetti with a stick, 1932.

Spaghetti is dried on the beach of Amalfi, Italy, 1949.

The paste is hung up for drying on the market.