Do you like spaghetti and meatballs? It's an American dish that has spaghetti, tomato sauce, and meatballs
I do! Although, I admit, I mostly just like the meatballs.
Sometimes it is mocked as non-Italian because traditionally, meatballs are only served with egg-based baked pasta
Oh really? I did not know that. I wonder if it's mocked similarly to how Mexican in America isn't really traditional mexican food
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-
is tomato sauce with veal meatballs, so-called "pallottelle". In fact, in Abruzzo chitarra alla teramana, is a long spaghetti-like pasta served with small meatballs (polpettine). It is traditional made-in-Abruzzo recipe. It is a generally a first course (primo piatto). The spaghetti are seasoned with meat or vegetable ragù and served with pallottine (little balls, which are actually meatballs).
A dried variation without egg is often marketed as spaghetti or maccheroni alla chitarra within and