Cooked spaghetti

Spaghetti served with tomato sauce and Parmesan cheese

Spaghetti is a long, thin, cylindrical pasta of Italian origin. 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. Spaghetti may refer to: Spaghetti, a long thin form of pasta. ... This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... Spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese, prepared and photographed by Eloquence. ... Spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese, prepared and photographed by Eloquence. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Picture of semolina Semolina grains Semolina is coarsely ground grain, usually wheat, with particles mostly between 0. ... Impact from a water drop causes an upward rebound jet surrounded by circular capillary waves. ...

Etymology

Spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning "thin string" or "twine". 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. Historically, people in Italy ate pasta in the form of gnocchi-like dumplings – pasta fresca eaten as soon as it was prepared. 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). Legend has it that Cicero, the famous Roman orator was fond of "laganum", an ancient tagliatelle.^[5] The Saracens, originally from North Africa, invaded southern Italy in the 9th century and occupied Sicily for 200 years. 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] Lo mein (Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: lāo miàn) is a Chinese dish based on stir-fried wheat noodles. ... Chinese cuisine includes many different types of noodles, called miàn (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; often transliterated as mien or mein ). Miàn (麵) refers to noodles made from wheat while fÄ›n () or fun refers to noodles made from rice. ... Marco Polo (September 15, 1254[1] – January 9, 1324 at earliest but no later than June 1325[2]) was a Venetian trader and explorer who gained fame for his worldwide travels, recorded in the book Il Milione (The Million or The Travels of Marco Polo). ... Gnocchi with truffle. ... For the film, see Dumplings (film). ... For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). ... Southern Italy, often referred to in Italian as the Mezzogiorno (a term first used in 19th century in comparison with French Midi ) encompasses six of the countrys 20 regions: Basilicata Campania Calabria Puglia Sicilia Sardinia Sicilia although it is geographically and administratively included in Insular Italy, it has a... Peter Robb is an Australian author. ... For other uses, see Cicero (disambiguation). ... Tagliatelle /taatl-le/ is the classic pasta of the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. ... For the rugby club Saracens see Saracens (rugby club) The term Saracen comes from Greek sarakenoi. ...

Preparation

Spaghetti is cooked by boiling the pasta with salt in water until soft. 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. Others prefer their spaghetti cooked to a softer consistency. The best dried spaghetti is made from durum wheat semolina. Inferior spaghetti is often found produced with other kinds of flour, especially outside Italy. Fresh spaghetti should be prepared with grade '00' flour. Boiling, a type of phase transition, is the rapid vaporization of a liquid, which typically occurs when a liquid is heated to its boiling point, the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid is equal to the pressure exerted on the liquid by the surrounding atmospheric pressure. ... Impact from a water drop causes an upward rebound jet surrounded by circular capillary waves. ... In cooking, the adjective al dente (pronounced al DEN-tay) describes pasta and (less commonly) rice that have been cooked to be edible but still firm, or vegetables that are cooked to the tender crisp phase - still offering resistance to the bite, but cooked through. ... Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum durum) is the only tetraploid species of wheat widely cultivated today. ... Picture of semolina Semolina grains Semolina is coarsely ground grain, usually wheat, with particles mostly between 0. ...

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 (Italian: ver-mih-CHEL-lee, lit. ...

Serving

Spaghetti during cooking

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. Other spaghetti preparations include Bolognese sauce and carbonara. Grated hard cheeses, such as Pecorino Romano, Parmesan or Asiago, are often added. Outside Italy it is often served with meatballs, although that is not a typical Italian recipe. Cooking spaghetti. ... Cooking spaghetti. ... Italian cuisine as a national cuisine known today has evolved through centuries of social and political change. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Herb (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Origanum vulgare L. Oregano or Pot Marjoram (Origanum vulgare) is a species of Origanum, native to Europe, the Mediterranean region and southern and central Asia. ... For other uses, see Basil (disambiguation). ... For the Popeye character, see Olive Oyl. ... For other uses, see Meat (disambiguation). ... Vegetables on a market Vegetable is a nutritional and culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary fruit, nut, herb, spice, or grain. ... Fettuccine with bolognese sauce Bolognese sauce (ragù alla bolognese in Italian, also known by its French name sauce bolognaise) is a meat based sauce for pasta originating in Bologna, Italy. ... Carbonara means coal like carbon and only miners in italy eat it. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals. ... Categories: Food and drink stubs | Italian cheeses ... Country of origin Italy Region, town Provinces of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna (west of the Reno), Mantua (south of the Po) Source of milk Cows Pasteurised No Texture Hard Aging time Minimum: 12 months Vecchio: 18–24 months Stravecchio: 24–36 months Certification Italy: DOC 1955 EU: PDO 1992... Asiago cheese. ... For other uses, see Meatball (disambiguation). ...

The manner of eating spaghetti varies according to local custom, but it is usually eaten with a fork, as with most other Continental dishes. 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. In East Asia, many people use chopsticks as a form of eating rather than forks, as chopsticks are customary in most East Asian countries. For other uses, see Fork (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Spoon (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Chopsticks (disambiguation). ...

Spaghetti served with crayfish

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. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1463 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Spaghetti User:Chensiyuan Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1463 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Spaghetti User:Chensiyuan Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... Families Astacoidea   Astacidae   Cambaridae Parastacoidea   Parastacidae Crayfish, often referred to as crawfish, or crawdads, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are closely related. ...

Cultural references

• On April Fools' Day, 1957, the BBC ran a very successful spoof documentary explaining how spaghetti is grown on spaghetti trees.^[7]
• The spoof religion Pastafarianism holds that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster.
• 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 Eis is a mock dessert which looks like spaghetti with tomato sauce.

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See also

• Carbonara
• Lai fun
• Spaghetti squash

Carbonara means coal like carbon and only miners in italy eat it. ... Lai fun is a variety of Chinese noodle that is chubby, round, and fat. ... The spaghetti squash (Cucurbita pepo) (vegetable spaghetti, vegetable marrow, noodle squash or squaghetti) is a rugby ball-sized and shaped, yellow, seed-bearing fruit. ...

References

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