October is National Pasta Month, and October 17th is National Pasta Day. Pasta lovers celebrate! Pasta is a type of noodle of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily and first attested in English in 1874. Typically, it is made from unleavened dough of durum wheat flour that is mixed with water or eggs and formed into sheets or various shapes. Spinach and tomato Rotini becomes a vegetable pasta salad.