Perhaps the best day of the whole year, World Pasta Day is as good excuse as any to enjoy a hearty pasta lunch. If you have a kitchen space and some budding chefs in your organisation, why not organise a cook-off to see who makes the best pasta dish? Your teams can be the judges and have a delicious lunch to celebrate this fun day. Short on time? How about a quick trivia quiz? Here are some interesting facts to include: Pasta is the Italian word for dough. There are over 600 known pasta shapes! Contrary to popular belief, Marco Polo did not discover pasta in Asia and bring it to Italy. Pasta can be traced back as far as the 4th century BC!