Man spaghetti and meatball, now that is a meal
I love it! I love the tomato sauce and meatballs!
What do you know about it?
It was an innovation of early 20th century Italian Immigrants in New York City.
Oh really I thought for sure it was invented by America
like pasta served with small meatballs (polpettine). It is traditional made-in-Abruzzo recipe. It is a generally a first course (primo piatto) prepared with chitarra pasta cut with a traditional tool called “chitarra” or guitar-like strings tool. They are seasoned with meat or vegetable ragù and served with pallottine (little balls, which are actually meatballs).
Other dishes that have similarities to spaghetti and meatballs include "pasta seduta" 'seated pasta' and "maccaroni azzese" in Apulia.
Spaghetti with meatballs
Spaghetti and meatballs or spaghetti with meatballs is an Italian-American dish consisting of spaghetti, tomato sauce and meatballs.
History.
It is widely believed that spaghetti and meatballs was an innovation of early 20th-century Italian immigrants in New York City. The National Pasta Association (originally named the National Macaroni Manufacturers Association) is said to be the first organization to publish a recipe for it, in the 1920s.
Italian writers and chefs often mock the dish as pseudo-Italian or non-