Spaghetti is a long, cylindrical pasta of Italian origin. This article is about the sauces often used with pasta In some countries "tomato sauce" is also used to refer to the condiment Ketchup. Pasta ( Italian for "dough" is a generic term for Italian variants of Noodles. 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. ^[1] Spaghetti is made of semolina and water. Semolina is the purified middlings of hard wheat used in making Pasta; also the coarse middlings used for breakfast cereals puddings and Polenta. Water is a common Chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of Life.

Contents 1 Etymology 2 Origins 3 Preparation 4 Serving 5 Cultural references 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

Etymology

Spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning "thin string" or "twine". Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy. 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. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National Lo mein is a Chinese dish with Noodles It often contains Vegetables and some type of Meat or Seafood, usually Beef, Chinese noodles are an essential ingredient and staple in Chinese cuisine. Marco Polo ( September 15 1254 – January 9 1324 at earliest but no later than June 1325 was a Venetian trader and explorer Historically, people in Italy ate pasta in the form of gnocchi-like dumplings – pasta fresca eaten as soon as it was prepared. For the Italian Baroque composer please see Pietro Gnocchi. Gnocchi (ˈɲɔːki in Italian singular gnocco) is the Italian name for Dumplings are "piece of Dough, sometimes filled that cooked in liquid such as water or soup" or "sweetened dough wrapped around fruit such as an apple baked It has now been asserted that the Arabs who populated Southern Italy (around the 12th Century) were the first to develop the innovation of working pasta from grain into thin long forms,^[2][3][4] 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). The araB gene Promoter is a bacterial promoter activated by e L-arabinose binding Geography Southern Italy forms the lower "boot" of the Italian peninsula containing the ankle (Abruzzo and Molise and southern Lazio the toe (Calabria and the heel Peter Robb (born 1946 in Toorak, Melbourne) is an Australian author Legend has it that Cicero, the famous Roman orator was fond of "laganum", an ancient tagliatelle. Marcus Tullius Cicero ( Classical Latin ˈkikeroː usually ˈsɪsərəʊ in English January 3, 106 BC &ndash December 7, 43 BC was a Roman Tagliatelle /taʎːa'tɛlːe|/ (from the Italian tagliare, meaning "to cut" is the classic Pasta of the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. ^[5] The Saracens, originally from North Africa, invaded southern Italy in the 9th century and occupied Sicily for 200 years. Saracen was a term used by Europeans in the Middle Ages for Fatimids at first then later for all who professed the religion of Islam. 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. ^[6]

Preparation

Spaghetti is cooked by boiling the pasta with salt in water until soft. Boiling (also called ebullition) a type of Phase transition, is the rapid vaporization of a Liquid, which typically occurs when a liquid Water is a common Chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of Life. The consistency or texture of spaghetti changes as it is cooked. The most popular consistency is al dente (Italian 'to the tooth'); that is, soft but with texture, sometimes even with bite in the center. In Cooking, the adjective al dente (æl ˈdɛnteɪ describes Pasta and (less commonly Rice that has been cooked so as to be firm but not hard Others prefer their spaghetti cooked to a softer consistency. The best dried spaghetti is made from durum wheat semolina. Durum wheat or macaroni wheat (also spelled Durhum Triticum durum or Triticum turgidum durum) is the only Tetraploid species of Wheat Semolina is the purified middlings of hard wheat used in making Pasta; also the coarse middlings used for breakfast cereals puddings and Polenta. Inferior spaghetti is often found produced with other kinds of flour, especially outside Italy. Fresh spaghetti should be prepared with grade '00' flour.

There are two other variants of spaghetti that require different cooking times. Spaghettini ("thin spaghetti") takes less time (usually two minutes less) to cook to al dente form than regular spaghetti. There is also spaghettoni ("thick spaghetti") which takes longer to cook. All three types of spaghetti are larger than the other round-rod pastas (like vermicelli). Vermicelli (ˌvɜrmɪˈtʃɛli in English, Arabic: شعريه from Italian /veɾmiˈtʃɛlːi/ lit

Serving

An emblem of Italian cuisine, spaghetti is frequently served with tomato sauce, which may contain various herbs (especially oregano and basil), olive oil, meat, or vegetables. Italian cuisine as a national Cuisine known today has evolved through centuries of social and political changes with its roots traced back to 4th century BC This article is about the sauces often used with pasta In some countries "tomato sauce" is also used to refer to the condiment Ketchup. A(n herb (ˈhɝb or /ˈɝb/ see pronunciation differences) is a plant that is valued for qualities such as medicinal properties flavor scent or the like Oregano or ( Origanum vulgare) is a species of Origanum, native to Europe, the Mediterranean region and southern and central Asia Basil ( Ocimum basilicum) (ˈbeɪzəl or /ˈbæzəl/ of the Family Lamiaceae. Olive oil is a fruit oil obtained from the olive ( Olea europaea; family Oleaceae along with Lilacs Jasmine and ash trees In modern English usage meat most often refers to Animal tissue used as food mostly Skeletal muscle and associated Fat, but it may also refer The term " vegetable " generally means the edible parts of Plants The definition of the word is traditional rather than Scientific, however Other spaghetti preparations include Bolognese sauce and carbonara. Bolognese sauce ( Ragù alla bolognese in Italian also known by its French name sauce bolognaise) is a Meat -based sauce for Pasta Pasta alla carbonara (usually Spaghetti, but occasionally Linguine or Bucatini) is an Italian Pasta dish based on eggs Grated hard cheeses, such as Pecorino Romano, Parmesan or Asiago, are often added. Cheese is a Food made from Milk, usually the milk of cows, Buffalo, Goats or sheep, by coagulation. Pecorino Romano is a hard salty Italian Cheese, suitable primarily for grating, made out of Sheep milk (the Italian word Parmigiano-Reggiano is a hard fat Granular cheese, cooked but not pressed named after the producing areas of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Asiago cheese ( is an Italian Cheese that according to the different Aging can assume different textures from smooth for the fresh Asiago cheese (Asiago Outside Italy it is often served with meatballs, although that is not a typical Italian recipe. A meatball is a generally mass of ground Meat that is typically rolled meat comprised of rolled ground beef and other ingredients such as Bread or

The manner of eating spaghetti varies according to local custom, but it is usually eaten with a fork, as with most other Continental dishes. As a piece of Cutlery or Kitchenware, a fork is a tool consisting of a handle with several narrow tines (usually two three or four on one end Eating spaghetti with a fork and a spoon is considered perfectly polite in parts of the United States, although this method is widely disparaged in the US and elsewhere. A spoon is a Utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl at the end of a handle used primarily for serving and eating Liquid, or semi-liquid foods and solid foods In East Asia, many people use chopsticks as a form of eating rather than forks, as chopsticks are customary in most East Asian countries.

Another method of eating spaghetti, which is the traditional way in Italy, is to use just a fork and twist it so that the spaghetti wraps around the fork. Crayfish, crawfish, crawdads, or crodgers are freshwater Crustaceans resembling small Lobsters to which they are closely

Cultural references

• On April Fools' Day, 1957, the BBC ran a very successful spoof documentary explaining how spaghetti is grown on spaghetti trees. This article is about the informal holiday For other uses see April Fool. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) The Spaghetti tree is a fictitious Tree and the subject of a 3-minute spoof report on the Swiss spaghetti harvest beside Lake Lugano broadcast by the BBC ^[7]
• The spoof religion Pastafarianism holds that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. The Flying Spaghetti Monster (also known as the FSM) is the Deity of a The Flying Spaghetti Monster (also known as the FSM) is the Deity of a
• These spaghetti is often used in common conversation, with one person laughing, thinking "this spaghetti" would be more grammatically correct(however they are wrong with the former being correct).
• "Spaghetti" can be used to describe objects which are complicated or tangled, such as spaghetti code or Spaghetti Junction. Spaghetti code is a Pejorative term for Source code which has a complex and tangled Control structure, especially one using many GOTOs exceptions " Spaghetti Junction " is a nickname sometimes given to a complicated or massively intertwined interchange that resembles a plate of Spaghetti.
• Spaghetti Eis is a mock dessert which looks like spaghetti with tomato sauce.

See also

• Carbonara
• Lai fun
• Spaghetti squash

References

External links

• Spaghetti with red clam sauce Video Recipe
• Paper on the physics of fragmenting spaghetti (PDF)

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