Pasta - did the Romans have it?

[Carlton Bach]

So could you use it in a first or second century impression. It is was not cultivated in Italy it would more than likely be a rareity, but could you get away with it?

Our understanding of the exact developments is extremely tenuous, so I'd rather limit it to high-class eating. The first evidence for rice cultivation in the Med are 6th/7th century, so a Roman eating rice would have to have gotten it at the very least from Parthia, if not India.