[masklinn]

> How did pasta get so popular if they had to import the wheat?

It didn’t. The population increased and the country didn’t have the wheat-growing regions it would have needed to match.

And pasta is not the only wheat sink, bread and other doughs (e.g. pizza) are generally wheat based as well.

[avereveard]

Those are different wheats

[SamBam]

You still have to import most of them.