Somali–Italian Pasta 🇸🇴🇮🇹: A Dish Shaped by History and Flavor. Even though colonialism was deeply harmful politically and economically, the social side (for some) often created unexpected cultural exchanges, especially through food. Take pasta. What started as an Italian staple spread globally during 19th-century industrialization, and every culture it touched made it its own. Somalia did exactly that; elevating spaghetti with rich local spices, banana and even camel meat, turning it into s

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