Does Alfredo sauce exist in Italy? Or is it a sauce that us Americans evented? Fettucine Alfredo is so good!?

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I have been chatting with an Italian guy for 2.5 yrs. We've shared recipes with each other many times. But he has never heard of "Alfredo" sauce. Is there another name for it in Italy? He has sent me alot of pastas and sauces through the postal mail. I was surprised when he told me that he never heard of "Alfredo" sauce.

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Yes, Italians make a dish of pasta, fettuccine dressed with nothing else than good aged parmigiano cheese and a lot of butter, but it is such a simple preparation that Italians don’t even consider it a “recipe”.

Waverly Root in his famous book “The Food of Italy” (New York, 1971) wrote: “FETTUCCINE AL BURRO is associated in every tourist’s mind with Rome, possibly because the original Alfredo succeeded in making its serving a spectacle reminiscent of grand opera. It is the same ribbon shaped egg pasta tat is called tagliatelle in Bologna; but the al burro preparation is very Roman indeed in its rich simplicity. Nothing is added to the pasta except grated cheese and butter - lots of butter. The recipe calls for doppio burro, double butter, which gives it a golden color.”

Who was Alfredo then? Alfredo di Lelio, this was his full name, was an inspired cook who proposed this new exciting dish in the restaurant he opened in Rome in 1914. It was a high gourmet preparation in the Roman tradition of

simplicity. Apparently he created his Fettuccine all’Alfredo when his wife lost her appetite during her pregnancy. To bring back her appetite he prepared for her a nutritious dish of egg fettuccine with parmigiano cheese and butter. That probably gave him the idea for his “triple butter” fettuccine. '
He was an extravagant character who used to personally serve his paper-thin fettuccine with golden forks, apparently donated to him by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, the famous silent movie stars. In the fifties and sixties, Hollywood discovered Rome. Paparazzi photographers took photos of actors such as Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Richard Burton, Liz Taylor, or Sophia Loren in front of a plate of Fettuccine all’Alfredo, making his restaurant famous all around the world. The restaurant is now run buy his grandson, and the golden forks are still used to serve this dish for special occasions.

Samuel Chamberlain, journalist and food writer, met Alfredo in the late fifties and wrote in his book “Italian Bouquet – An Epicurean Tour of Italy” (New York, 1958): “Finally there is the great Alfredo, showman par excellence, who draws an endless file of amazed and hungry tourists to watch his calisthenics over a dish of hot noodles. The King of Noodles has come out of retirement, and now wields his golden fork and spoon at ALFREDO ALL’AUGUSTEO, at number 31 on the Piazza Augusto Imperatore. His Maestosissime Fettuccine all’Alfredo are most majestic, without a doubt. […] You have to visit this place at least once, we suppose, just to say you have seen this elderly, melodramatic good-hearted clown in action.”

So, forget the heavy cream, the parsley, the garlic, and all the other stuff suggested in the hundreds of Alfredo recipes that circulate around. Take down from the shelf that pasta machine, prepare your fresh fettuccine (you can substitute fresh fettuccine with excellent dry egg noodles), and enjoy the simple Maestosissime Fettuccine al Triplo Burro the way Alfredo himself would do them. Find the step-by-step illustrated recipe here: http://www.annamariavolpi.com/pasta_alfredo_recipe.html

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Does Alfredo sauce exist in Italy? Or is it a sauce that us Americans evented? Fettucine Alfredo is so good!?
I have been chatting with an Italian guy for 2.5 yrs. We've shared recipes with each other many times. But he has never heard of "Alfredo" sauce. Is there another name for it in Italy? He has sent me alot of pastas and sauces through the postal mail. I was surprised when he told me...

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You know, I can't tell you enough how much I try to tell these people that their dishes are incredibly not Italian, but you know how Americans like their crappy comfort food. Frankly, though, I wasn't aware that alfredo sauce was fake, too.

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Um I think bechamel sauce is similar to alfredo maybe if you say that he'll know what alfredo tastes like...

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a while back on martha stewart, she had the sons of the "alfredo", the guy that created the original alfredo sauce, it is nothing more than equal parts of butter and grated parmesan cheese.
the "white sauce" is an american creation

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Ciao , you have to ask "spaghetti in bianco" or "pasta in bianco" to eat "alfredo sauce",in Italy this recipes is too poor to find this in a menù. If you live not too far to Brescia U can eat a good spaghetti to me and my wife Ciao !

Answer 10

in fact.. I'm Italian and even now i haven't understood what is this "Alfredo sauce"...it doesn't exist in Italy.. also "spaghetti bolognesi", you'll never find it in Italy ( are called Spaghetti col Ragù)...
i looked some of "American-Italian" recipes (also in restaurants) and i think i didn't find 1 real Italian recipe, are similar but aren't the same...
and i don't start talking about pizza...
it's different...i don't know why