photo results | Putting pasta in the pot | Picture of someone putting pasta (spaghetti) into a pot. | |
|  thedogshrink (139) |
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 | Italian Pasta | I just love Italian Pasta,Spaghetti. | |
|  arko006 (635) |
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 | Pancit vs Spaghetti | I ust got this picture in the intrenet.. | |
|  kissie34 (691) |
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 | Italian food | I love Italian foods. | |
|  sudalunts (1918) |
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 | Spaghetti with meat balls | I like Spaghetti with meat balls,my mouth started watering,every time I think of that. | |
|  arko006 (635) |
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 | Spaghetti Tree | Here's the proof! lol | |
|  louise99 (1521) |
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 | pasta | yummy spaghetti with cheese toppings | |
|  misty99 (627) |
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 | spaghetti | Spaghetti is a long, thin, cylindrical pasta of Italian origin. A variety of pasta dishes are based on it, from spaghetti with cheese and pepper or garlic and oil to a spaghetti with tomato, meat, and other sauces. Spaghetti is made of semolina and water.
Spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning "thin string" or "twine". The word spaghetti can be literally translated as "little strings".
Origins
While some people believe that spaghetti (or even pasta in some accounts) originated in China (where long thin noodles have a lengthy history), some now assert that the reading of a lost Marco Polo manuscript which led to this belief, was in fact an inaccurate Latin translation. Historically, people in Italy ate pasta in the form of gnocchi-like dumplings – pasta fresca eaten as soon as it was prepared. Some rare records have shown the Wezzellian people of Albuquerti in Italy were very fond of a thinner dumpling "noodle" combined with meats in a sauce. It has now been asserted that the Muslims who populated Southern Italy (around the 12th Century) were the first to develop the innovation of working pasta from grain into thin long forms, capable of being dried out and stored for months or years prior to consumption (see Peter Robb's Midnight in Sicily pp 94-96 for details). Legend has it that Cicero, the famous Roman orator was fond of "laganum", an ancient tagliatelle. The Saracens, originally from North Africa, invaded southern Italy in the 9th century and occupied Sicily for 200 years. Pasta is now associated with Italians as a whole. The popularity of pasta spread to the whole of Italy after the establishment of pasta factories in the 19th century, enabling the mass production of pasta for the Italian market. | |
|  tirtha9 (409) |
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 | spaghetti | spaghetti with garlic bread | |
|  kelly3 (4880) |
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