Historical Pasta
Wheat has been the main food source of people since it was domesticated along with barley, peas, lentils, chickpeas, flax, and bitter vetch in the region known as the “Fertile Crescent”, which includes southeastern Türkiye.
Estimated to have been cultured in Diyarbakir-Karacadag about 10 thousand years ago, there are 23 wild varieties and more than 400 cultured varieties in Anatolia.