By Luca Cesari and Johanna Bishop
Profile Books £16.99
It might come as a surprise to non-Italians that pasta in all its forms was invented in Italy.
Particularly to anyone - Chinese, French, Ukrainian or whatever - who's been rolling, scraping or stuffing a basic flour-and-water dough ever since a handful of grain was pounded into flour at the cave mouth.
But this is the message convincingly.