Spaghetti with meatballs

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Spaghetti with meatballs

Spaghetti with meatballs
Course Main course
Place of origin United States
Region or state Little Italy
Serving temperature Hot
Main ingredients Spaghetti, tomato sauce, meatballs
Cookbook: Spaghetti with meatballs  Media: Spaghetti with meatballs
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Spaghetti with meatballs (or spaghetti and meatballs) is an Italian-American dish that usually consists of spaghetti, tomato sauce and meatballs.[1]

History

It is widely believed that spaghetti with meatballs was an innovation of early 20th-century Italian immigrants in New York City; the National Pasta Association (originally named the National Macaroni Manufacturers Association) is said to be the first organization to publish a recipe for it, in the 1920s.[2]

Italian writers often mock the dish as pseudo-Italian or non-Italian [3] because, in Italy, meatballs are uncommon and smaller.[4]

However, various kinds of pasta with meat are part of the culinary tradition of the Abruzzo, Apulia, Sicily, and other parts of southern Italy. A recipe for rigatoni with meatballs is in Il cucchiaio d'argento (The Silver Spoon), a comprehensive Italian cookbook known as the "bible" of Italian Cooking. Other dishes that have similarities to spaghetti and meatballs include include pasta seduta 'seated pasta' and maccaroni azzese in Apulia.[5][6][7]

Totally different are the baked pasta dishes from Apulia, where meatballs, mortadella, or salami are baked with rigatoni, tomato sauce, and mozzarella, then covered with a pastry top.[8]

Other pasta recipes include slices of meat rolled up with cheese, cured meats and herbs (involtini in Italian) and braciole (bra'zhul) in Italian-American and Italian-Australian slang, that are cooked within sauce but pulled out to be served as a second course.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Dickie, John (2008). Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food. Simon and Schuster. pp. 225–226. ISBN 1416554009. Retrieved March 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. ↑ America’s Favorite Recipes: The Melting Pot Cuisine, Part 2 (2009), p 157
  3. ↑ Filippo Piva, "Gli spaghetti con le polpette e gli altri falsi miti della cucina italiana all’estero", Wired Italy, 29 July 2014 full text
  4. ↑ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1986/07/pasta/306226
  5. ↑ Oretta Zanini de Vita, Encyclopedia of Pasta (2009, ISBN 0520944712), p. 315, with ziti
  6. ↑ Accademia Italiana della Cucina, "Maccaroni Azzese"
  7. ↑ "Ricetta Spaghetti con le polpettine - Le ricette di Paciulina". Le Ricette di Paciulina.it. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "Pasta asciutta alla pugliese", in Touring Club of Italy, La cucina del Bel Paese, p. 292

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