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Savory Spaghetti And Meatballs -
Spaghetti Aglio E Olio (spaghetti With Garlic) -
Sausage Spaghetti -
Spaghetti A La Brindisi -
Cheesy Spaghetti Delight -
Spaghetti Florentine -
Spaghetti Martini -
Spaghetti Primavera -
Spaghetti Bolognese -
Spaghetti Carbonara -
Spaghetti Mizithra (Greek-Style Spaghetti) -
Spaghetti Pie - Red Gravy (otherwise known as Tomato Sauce!)
Day 6 is
Spaghetti Day!!
In celebration of your love for Spaghetti
(one of my favorites too)
I have made you a page
full of spaghetti facts and recipes.
Enjoy!!
(This is really making me hungry... LOL)
Who "invented" pasta?
Popular legend has it that Marco Polo
introduced pasta to Italy following his exploration of the Far East
in the late 13th century; however, we can trace pasta back as far
as the fourth century B.C., where an Etruscan tomb showed a group
of natives making what appears to be pasta. The Chinese were making
a noodle-like food as early as 3000 B.C. And Greek mythology suggests
that the Greek God Vulcan invented a device that made strings of dough
(the first Spaghetti!).
Pasta made its way to the New World
through the English, who discovered it while touring Italy. Colonists
brought to America the English practice of cooking noodles at least
one half hour, then smothering them with cream sauce and cheese. But
it was Thomas Jefferson who is credited with bringing the first "maccaroni"
machine to America in 1789 when he returned home after serving as
ambassador to France.
The first industrial pasta factory
in America was built in Brooklyn in 1848 by, of all people, a Frenchman,
who spread his spaghetti strands on the roof to dry in the sunshine.
Is pasta fattening?
Pasta is not fattening. If you eat
too much of any food, you can gain weight. According to USDA's Handbook
8-20, a 1/2 cup serving of cooked pasta (spaghetti) contains a mere
99 calories, less than half a gram of fat, and less than 5 milligrams
of sodium.
What are the most popular pasta dishes?
According to the American Pasta Report,
40 percent of respondents say spaghetti is their personal favorite,
followed by lasagne (12%), macaroni and cheese (6%), fettuccine (6%),
linguine (3%), elbows (3%), pasta salad (3%), and angel hair (2%).
Did you know that people selected Oprah Winfrey (31%) and David Letterman (34%) as the TV celebrity with whom they would most like to share a bowl of pasta? Source: American Pasta Report
I have collected some Spaghetti recipes for you. There is quite a variety here...
Now lets go eat!!