Heres the dish on which pasta aligns with your zodiac sign

Fork and spoons at the ready.and gluten gluttons on your marks; it’s National Pasta Day.On October 17th, in the last gasp of Libra season, we celebrate the glory of pasta.

While pasta is most commonly associated with Italian food, noodles are a bit of a cultural universal, found on ancient plates the world over.A persistent myth maintains that pasta was introduced to Italy by Virgo explorer Marco Polo, but food scholar Oretta Zanini De Vita debunks this origin story in her book The Encyclopedia of Pasta.

De Vita explains that dried durum wheat pasta found in Italy dates to 800 A.D., four centuries before Polo was born.She maintains that the Muslims who conquered Sicily brought with them the wheat that serves as the basis for pasta noodles, and by the 12th century, the markets of Genoa and Pisa were rife with the stuff.

Theory holds that part of the reason pasta, and particularly dried pasta took hold in Italy is because the country then and now, is deeply Catholic and pasta could be eaten on both fast days and in times of feasting.Check out more of The Post’s food astrology content:Early Spanish settlers brought pasta to the shores of the New World, and it was later popularized by deeply problematic president Thomas Jefferson, who fell for a preliminary version of macaroni and cheese while serving as minister of trade in Paris.

During that tenure, Jefferson sent his enslaved chef, James Hemming (who was also his wife’s half-brother), to apprentice at a famed chateau, making Hemming the first French-trained American chef in history.When they returned to the United States, Hemming introduced what he called macaroni pie to the Americas, serving it at Jefferson’s 1802 state dinner and sowing the seeds of comfort food to come.

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