Spaghetti and meatballs
Course | Main course |
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Place of origin | Italy United States |
Region or state | Abruzzo New York City |
Serving temperature | Hot |
Main ingredients | Spaghetti, tomato sauce, meatballs |
Spaghetti and meatballs or spaghetti with meatballs is an Italian and Italian-American dish consisting of spaghetti, tomato sauce and meatballs.[1] Although it is often claimed that it is not found in Italy, combinations of pasta with meat date back at least to the Middle Ages,[2] and are documented in modern Italian cookbooks as maccheroni alle polpette[3] (translated as "spaghetti with meatballs"[4]) and maccheroni alla chitarra con polpette.[5] They are especially popular in southern Italy.
History[]
Spaghetti and meatballs was popular among Italian immigrants in New York City, who had access to a more plentiful meat supply than in Italy.[6]
- In 1888, Juliet Corson of New York published a recipe for pasta with meatballs and tomato sauce.[7]
- In 1909 a recipe for "Beef Balls with Spaghetti" appeared in American Cookery, Volume 13.[8]
- The National Pasta Association (originally named the National Macaroni Manufacturers Association) published a recipe for spaghetti with meatballs in the 1920s.[9]
- In 1931 Venice Maid in New Jersey was selling canned "spaghetti with meatballs in sauce".[10]
- In 1938 the exact phrase "spaghetti and meatballs" appeared in a list of canned foods produced by Ettore Boiardi, later known as Chef Boyardee, in Milton, Pa.[11]
Italian writers and chefs often mock the dish as pseudo-Italian or non-Italian,[12] because in Italy meatballs are smaller and are only served with egg-based, baked pasta.[13] 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.
In Abruzzo, chitarra alla teramana is a standard first course made with spaghetti alla chitarra, small meatballs (polpettine or pallottine), and a meat or vegetable ragù.[14]
Other dishes that have similarities to spaghetti and meatballs include pasta seduta 'seated pasta' and maccaroni azzese in Apulia.[15][16][17]
Some baked pasta dishes from Apulia combine pasta and meat where meatballs, mortadella, or salami are baked with rigatoni, tomato sauce, and mozzarella, then covered with a pastry top.[18]
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.
Spaghetti and spicy meatballs, homemade
Restaurant presentation of spaghetti and meatballs with Parmesan cheese.
See also[]
- Bolognese sauce
- Italian-American cuisine
- List of meatball dishes
- List of pasta dishes
- Meatball sandwich
- Spaghetti alla chitarra
References[]
- ^ Dickie, John (2008). Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food. Simon and Schuster. pp. 225–226. ISBN 978-1416554004. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
- ^ Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "Italian macaroni and meatballs", The Eternal Table November 27, 2021
- ^ Ada Boni, Il Talismano della Felicità, Rome, 4th edition, 1934, p. 128
- ^ Ada Boni, The Talisman Italian Cook Book, New York, 1950, translation, excluding non-Italian dishes (see p. v) and with Italian-American dishes marked with an asterisk (see p. v) of the 15th Italian edition, p. 154-155
- ^ Il Cucchiaio D'Argento https://www.cucchiaio.it/ricetta/ricetta-maccheroni-chitarra-pallottine/. Retrieved 2021-04-19. Missing or empty
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(help) - ^ Frankie Celenza (2018-07-03). "Italian-American Food Never Claimed To Be Italian, So You Can Stop Hating On It". HuffPost.
- ^ Corson, Juliet (1888). Family Living on $500 a Year: A Daily Reference-book for Young and Inexperienced Housewives. Harper & Brothers. p. 43.
- ^ American Cookery. 13. Whitney Publications. 1909.
- ^ America's Favorite Recipes: The Melting Pot Cuisine, Part 2. 2009. p. 157.
- ^ "Venice Maid". Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office. Vol. 633. United States Patent Office. 1950. p. 712.
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=0t1HAAAAYAA. Missing or empty
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(help) - ^ Piva, Filippo (29 July 2014). "Gli spaghetti con le polpette e gli altri falsi miti della cucina italiana all'estero". Wired Italy.
- ^ "Pasta". The Atlantic. July 1986.
- ^ Winke, Rebecca (March 30, 2017). "Abruzzo's Traditional Foods From Mountain to Sea". ITALY Magazine.
- ^ Oretta Zanini de Vita (2009). Encyclopedia of Pasta. p. 315. ISBN 978-0520944718.
- ^ "Maccaroni Azzese". Accademia Italiana della Cucina.
- ^ "Ricetta Spaghetti con le polpettine - Le ricette di Paciulina". Le Ricette di Paciulina.it. 4 September 2012. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ^ "Pasta asciutta alla pugliese", in Touring Club of Italy, La cucina del Bel Paese, p. 292
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