Wat can you tell me about spaghetti?

Answer 1

everything

Answer 2

Spaghetti is a long, thin form of pasta. It is versatile, popular, and available throughout the Western world.

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." According to some, it is an uncountable noun in English. Uncountable nouns have no plural form.

History
While legend has it that Marco Polo brought the recipe for spaghetti back from China, prior evidence showed that pasta has been made in Italy at least since the 4th century BC. In October 2005, a bowl of noodles 4000 years old was unearthed in a Chinese archaeological site as reported by the BBC.[1]

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Preparation
Most spaghetti sold and consumed is commercially prepared, then dried. Spaghetti is cooked by boiling the pasta in salted water until soft. The consistency or texture of spaghetti changes as it is cooked. The most popular consistency is al dente which is translated from the Italian as "to the tooth"; that is soft but with texture, sometimes even with bite in the centre. Others prefer their spaghetti fully cooked, which gives it a much softer consistency. The best dried spaghetti is made from durum wheat semolina. Fresh spaghetti should be prepared with grade '00' flour. Inferior spaghetti is often found produced with other kinds of flour, especially outside Italy.

An emblem of Italian cuisine, spaghetti is frequently served in tomato sauce, which may contain various herbs (especially oregano and basil), olive oil, meat, or vegetables. Other toppings include any of several hard cheeses, such as Pecorino Romano, Parmesan or Asiago. Outside Italy it is often served with meatballs, although that is not a typical Italian recipe.

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Eating
According to Neapolitan habit, eating spaghetti with a fork and a spoon is perfectly polite, though the view on this varies in other cultures. Many other Italians eat it with just a fork like most other Continental dishes.

In Asia, many people use chopsticks as a form of eating rather than forks, as chopsticks are custom in most Asian countries.

In parts of the US, a narrow size of macaroni is sold as elbow spaghetti. This is a misnomer, as this product is short and tubular, thus it's not a spaghetti at all.

Spaghettini is a form of pasta that is very much like spaghetti, except a bit thinner

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Spaghetti is a long, thin form of pasta. It is versatile, popular, and available throughout the Western world. According to Neapolitan habit, eating spaghetti with a fork and a spoon is perfectly polite, though the view on this varies in other cultures. Many other Italians eat it with just a fork like most other Continental dishes.

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i can tell you that is is absoulutly LOADED with carbs.........and taste. few people know this, but there are actually 452 different kinds of spaghetti noodles around the world and 35% of them come from indonesia, not italy. and, there are 33 kinds of spaghetti sauces, the most recognizable to americans, prego. spaghetti was actually first introduced to italians in the early 1600's. ever since, its popularity has greatly improved. the most famous addition to original spaghetti is mushrooms. some of the oddest additions include, walnuts, dried cherries and even in 3 countries, cocao beans. the spaghetti sauce traditionally served in italy, is made from italian tomatoes, green olive juice, and flour. i hope i helped you learn about spaghetti!

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History of pasta
The Italian cuisine is rich and varied in all its aspects, but pasta has been its pride and glory through much of its history. When Italians emigrated, settling throughout the New World and Oceana, they brought their pasta with them and it found its way into everyone's life style, a worldwide comfort food that today we take for granted. The origins of pasta are as tangled, however, as spaghetti tossed in a bowl. Let us trace the uncertain history of past, explode a few myths and ask a few questions.

Pasta in Ancient Greece and Rome
The Internet abounds with assertions that Greek mythology proves that the 'Greek God, Vulcan,' invented a device that made "strings of dough." Vulcan was a Roman god, not Greek, one who was associated with volcanoes and the fiery forge, and his Greek counterpart was Hephaestus. Nowhere in the works of the Greek writer, Homer, or the Roman, Ovid, is there mention of anything forged by Hephaestus or Vulcan other than armor, jewelry, and the fragile threads that trapped Venus and Mars in their lovemaking.(Click to see the quote from Ovid)

There is validity, however, in the belief that the Ancient Greeks and Romans had discovered some form of flattened dough - this a broad noodle called in Greek 'laganon.' It is significant, however, that this was not boiled as we boil lasagna noodles, but roasted on hot stones or in ovens - more related to what we would think of as pizza.

Apicius, a Roman writer of the first century AD describes a pasta made "to enclose timballi and pies..." These were called "lagana.' The recipe for the dough is not given, however there are suggestions for layering and seasoning with meat and fish.

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Easy to make So i've heard. There are many different types of Tomato Sauces you can choose to make Spaghetti from. I like it with thick noodles not thin. But no matter what noodles you use they still take the same amount of time to cook. You can put meatball's on them if you want too.

My 7 year old nephew is still learning to say the word correctly. He say's he know's how to but he likes to say it the wrong way.

Answer 7

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." According to some, it is an uncountable noun in English. Uncountable nouns have no plural form.

Answer 8

I love to make my own sauce and let it simmer for about 2 hours with some mild italian sausage.Add the meatballs about 30 to 40 minutes before taking off heat. Don't over cook the Pasta!

Answer 9

It's a type of pasta pasta is a
generic name for thin pieces of hardened, unleavened dough that are molded into various shapes and boiled, not baked. Pasta is commonly associated with Italian cuisine, though similar flour and rice pastas, usually called noodles, have been known in Asia for a long time and are believed to have been introduced into Europe during the Mongol invasions in the 13th cent. The basic ingredient of Italian-style pasta is semolina, a durum wheat flour, which is moistened with water, kneaded to a smooth dough, and rolled out and cut or formed into various shapes, such as ribbons, tubes, or disks; they may be twisted or ribbed. Thin strands are known as spaghetti (Italian for “little strings”) and very thin as vermicelli (“little worms”). Pasta may contain eggs as well as such flavoring and coloring agents as tomatoes, spinach, and squid ink. In Asia, noodles are a common staple, as in Japan’s soba (buckwheat noodles served with a soy dipping sauce), Korea’s chilled beef and noodle soup, and China’s lo mein (stir-fried wheat noodles paired with a variety of other ingredients) and chow fun (rice noodles). Many other countries have created their own pasta dishes, such as sweet noodle kugel (a Middle-European Jewish dish). Fresh pasta is also served as stuffed dumplings in many countries; the Polish pierogi, kin to Russian piroshki, are filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables. The Chinese serve potstickers, wontons, and many other types of dumplings, and the Italians serve cheese- or meat-stuffed ravioli, tortellini, and other types.

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It's yummy, has long stringy noodles, fantastic red sauce, often has beef or some type of meatball, and has a long history. Oh, and it is Italian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti

Answer 11

It's.... spaghetti.... noodles... white stuff....
To cook it: you plunk a bundle of stiff noodles in a pot full of water, boil it, stir until it's soft, then dump sauce on it and eat to your heart's content.