National "Eat Your Noodles" Day

It's simple. See those noodles on your plate? Eat them. Eat Your Noodles. It's National "Eat Your Noodles" Day! March 11 is a fitting date for it because March happens to be National Noodle Month—so you probably have plenty of noodles around to eat anyway.

A staple food in many cultures, noodles date to around 2000 BCE, to the Bronze Age: An earthenware bowl containing noodles that dates to that time period was found in Lajia along the northernmost portion of the Yellow River. These noodles looked similar to lamian, Chinese noodles made with soft wheat flour, although according to some analysis these were made with millet. The earliest written records of noodles date to a few thousand years later, referenced in a book from the Eastern Han period (25-220 CE). Indeed, noodles made with wheat dough were popular during the Han dynasty.

The name "noodle" comes from nudel, an eighteenth-century German word. Noodles are usually made from unleavened dough that is stretched, extruded, and rolled flat. They are usually in long, thin strips, but can be any shape, from tubes to shells, helices, waves, and more. Most noodles come from Chinese or Italian cuisine, with Italian noodles being known as pasta. There are more than 1,200 types of noodles in China alone.

Noodles can be made from many ingredients. They can be made from wheat, potato, soybean, oat, and other flours. There are rice noodles, egg noodles, mung bean thread noodles, kelp noodles, shirataki noodles, buckwheat noodles, and vegetable noodles such as zucchini noodles. There are noodles made from millet, sweet potato or arrowroot starch, and from bean curd skin and tofu.

Noodles are usually cooked by being boiled in water but can be deep-fried, pan-fried, or baked. They are used to make countless dishes: noodles with butter, sauce, cheese, or oil, spaghetti, fettuccine alfredo, lasagna, macaroni and cheese, chicken noodle soup, ramen, pho, lo mein, chow mein, pad thai, pasta salads, casseroles, and chili. No matter where noodles are found, today is the day to eat them!

How to Observe National "Eat Your Noodles" Day

Try noodles made with wheat, rice, egg, mung bean thread, zucchini, or something else. Have some noodles with butter, sauce, cheese, or oil. Enjoy a noodle dish. Have one at a restaurant or try your hand at making one (or two!):

• casserole
• chicken noodle soup
• chili
• chow mein
• fettuccine alfredo
• lasagna
• lo mein
• macaroni and cheese
• pad thai
• pasta salad
• pho
• ramen
• spaghetti
• another iconic noodle dish

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