{"id":34,"date":"2005-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2005-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"oldest-noodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Oldest noodles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists push back the date of the invention of noodles to 4,000 BP:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/4335160.stm\">BBC NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood.<\/p>\n<p>    Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old.<\/p>\n<p>    Scientists tell the journal Nature that the noodles were made using grains from millet grass &#8211; unlike modern noodles, which are made with wheat flour.<\/p>\n<p>    The discovery goes a long way to settling the old argument over who first created the string-like food.<\/p>\n<p>    Professor Houyuan Lu said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Prior to the discovery of noodles at Lajia, the earliest written record of noodles is traced to a book written during the East Han Dynasty sometime between AD 25 and 220, although it remained a subject of debate whether the Chinese, the Italians, or the Arabs invented it first. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great science writing too\u00e2\u20ac\u201cpacked with detailed information yet succinct. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never read a molecular biology news article as good.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/noodles.jpg\" alt=\"noodles\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists push back the date of the invention of noodles to 4,000 BP: BBC NEWS The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood. Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sci-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}