Pasta
~Blog Post #3~
April 20th, 2015
By: Michael W. Abbene
Pasta is hands down the most popular Italian dish. With hundreds of different types, the options along with sauce are endless. Young Italians are told of tales of Marco Polo bringing back pasta from China and starting a new tradition in the Mediterranean country. Pasta has been the cornerstone meal of Italy for hundreds, if not thousands of years. In some places, Italian meals such as pizza is more popular, but pizza is relatively new compared to the cuisine choice of pasta. Along with being a very popular dish, pasta is also very healthy. It’s great to pair with fiber-filled vegetables and beans, heart healthy fish and oils, antioxidant-rich tomato sauce and protein-packed, poultry and lean meats. Recipes for pasta can be difficult to find as every pasta is made differently by each person making it. For example, my family makes homemade lasagna and ravioli every holiday yet only three members of my family know the recipe. My grandmother, my uncle, and my father are the only members of my family to know our family recipe for lasagna and ravioli. However, one day the recipe will be jaded down to me...hopefully. All over the world, pasta is one of the most popular dishes. The carb filled meal is one of my personal favorites and I'm sure I'm not the only person to say that.
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Pasta is one of my favorite Italian foods. And does macaroni count as a type of pasta?
ReplyDeleteJust like most Italian cuisines, Pasta spread around all other cultures like most of their foods. What do you think has brought Italian cuisine such success with their foods in other countries and other cultures?
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