The typical Sunday red meat sauce is home to which province? I know in the northern provinces they use a creamier, whiter sauce. In Sicily the diet seems to revolve more around fish. Therefore, which Italian province would be home to what most Americans think of as typical Italian food? Food like Ravioli, Lasagna, Spaghetti and Meatballs, Pizza, etc.?
2007-02-17 08:20:40 · 9 answers · asked by Jumpin' Jack Flash 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Never heard of a meat sauSe but I expect the sauCe you're on about comes from the Napoli area - usually out of a can marked "Plum Tomatoes"
2007-02-17 22:20:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The red sauce by most Americans is actually Margherita sauce in honor of Queen Margherita after she visited the south of Italy.
Greek whatever! - everyone should remember that the tomato is a NEW WORLD food like the potato and tobacco. After the tomato was brought to the old country and all of the misconceptions which confused the tomato plant with the nightshade poisonous plant species. After a thousands of southern italians were NOT found dead from eating tomatoes, the southern italians were known to create the margherita sauce which ultimately became also bolognese.
It could have been Sicilia or the Calabria region. Tomatoes grow like weeds there with all the heat and water.
Ciao!
2007-02-17 14:28:02 · answer #2 · answered by atg28 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you talk about food in Italy, it's better referring to Region first, then Province for some more specific recipes; anyway, since it's not easy to say were something generic like "red meat sauce" started, I can tell you the most known and popular ragù (ra - gooh) based recipe is from Bologna: "ragù alla bolognese". Ravioli are related to Emilia Romagna (the region in which Bologna is), Naples is the city Pizza is widely more often associated to, spaghetti are more a national dish (I say "are" since "spaghetti" is plural, if you wonder :); the same for lasagna, although Bologna (again) is slightly more popular than other's. Meatballs (polpette) are also not specifically related to a Region, by themselves.
Remember any kind of food you mention, along with any other, anyway, is related to a city/region/province according to a specific recipe, and there's hundred of recipes for every single kind of food!
2007-02-18 01:43:35 · answer #3 · answered by Pinguino 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Florance ?. Although a lot of recipes where brought over to the US by Italian immigrants that started to improvise with ingredients that where more common or available in the states. Italian restaurants started back east in the early 1900 and became popular because of the portion (amount of pasta) you get for the price back then. So a chef name Boyardee decided to can his Italian recipes for everyone and the rest is history.
2007-02-17 08:31:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bologna in Northern Italy Emilia-Romagna - is renowned for its culinary tradition - the food capital of Italy. It has given its name to Bolognese sauce, the meat based pasta sauce.
2007-02-17 19:00:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
fishball's answer is correct. The red meat sauce you are referring to, also called ragu, comes from Bologna, city (and province) in the region of Emilia Romagna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Romagna
2007-02-18 11:19:58 · answer #6 · answered by d g 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I'm italian, but I don't know too much about that stuff, but to help you out, I heard Pizza was started in Greece. The other kinds of pasta are probably family-invented.
2007-02-17 08:23:22 · answer #7 · answered by WackyJohny81 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the north of italy is the meat sauce and the south is the red sauce
2007-02-17 08:24:43 · answer #8 · answered by alsimpson1234 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well. maet suace is called rague or gravy and it from balonia. not sure about the spelling.
2007-02-17 08:30:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋