Not totally Italian! But not exactly non-Italian, either. We look at the origin of noodles (and the one-word reason we know Marco Polo didn't bring them back from China), Italian-American immigration patterns (it explains why the west coast doesn't know from red sauce), and how East Asia has made this dish their own.

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