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TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, March 21, 2011
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Hope everyone had a great weekend! I moved into my new
place yesterday, so it was a very busy weekend! I have a
lot of unpacking to do this week. Let's kick off the week
with some fun facts about pasta...mmmm!
Enjoy!
Melissa
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Too many people overvalue what they are not and
undervalue what they are."
HINT: (1919-1990), magazine publisher.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
There is evidence that suggests the Etruscans made pasta as
early as 400 B.C. A carving was found in a cave about 30
miles north of Rome that depicts instruments for making
pasta, including a rolling-out table, pastry wheel and
flour bin.
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Legend has it that noodles were first made by 13th century
German bakers who fashioned dough into symbolic shapes,
such as swords, birds and stars, which were baked and
served as bread.
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Thomas Jefferson is credited with introducing macaroni to
the United States. It seems that he fell in love with a
certain dish he sampled in Naples, while serving as the
U.S. Ambassador to France. In fact, he promptly ordered
crates of "macaroni," along with a pasta-making machine,
sent back to the States.
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VIDEO CLIP
Sauteed Pasta - Stress Free Cooking
Today in the stress-free kitchen we're making sauteed angel
hair pasta with basil, white wine, tomatoes and garlic.
The trick is to keep your angel hair in a nice little nest
form when you pop it into the sautee pan.
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=430
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The Spanish explorer Cortez brought tomatoes back to Europe
from Mexico in 1519. Even then, almost 200 years passed
before spaghetti with tomato sauce made its way into
Italian kitchens.
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The first American pasta factory was opened in Brooklyn,
New York, in 1848, by a Frenchman named Antoine Zerega. He
managed the entire operation with just one horse in his
basement to power the machinery. To dry his spaghetti, he
placed strands of the pasta on the roof to dry in the
sunshine.
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During the 1980s, macaroni, which was traditionally
considered a "blue-collar" down-home meal, was transformed
into the more upscale "pasta."
From the National Pasta Association
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QUOTE: Too many people overvalue what they are not and
undervalue what they are.
ANSWER: Malcolm Forbes.
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