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TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, August 2, 2010
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Happy Monday! On Friday, some friends and I went out to
dinner for my boyfriend's birthday. We went to our favorite
Italian restaurant, the Olive Garden, to indulge in some
delicious salad, breadsticks, and of course, pasta! As I was
twirling the noodles on my fork, I started to wonder how
pasta came to be such a popular dish. Here is a little
history on this tasty topic...
Enjoy!
Melissa
Email Melissa: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Life is a combination of magic and pasta."
HINT: (1920-1993), Italian film director, considered one of
the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the
20th century.
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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. In the 13th century, the Pope set quality
standards for pasta.
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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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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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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 angle hair in a nice little nest form
when you pop it into the sautee pan.
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The first American pasta factory was opened in Brooklyn,
New York, in 1848, by a Frenchman named Antoine Zerega. Mr.
Zerega 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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The Italians only ate meat a few times a month. So, when
they came to America, where meat was so plentiful, they
incorporated meat into their cooking more often, making
meatballs an American invention.
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Approximately 2.75 million tons of pasta is made in Italy
each year, while the United States produces nearly 1.9
million tons per year.
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
Many have heard it, but nobody has ever seen it, and it
will not speak back until spoken to. What is it?
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QUOTE: "Life is a combination of magic and pasta."
ANSWER: Federico Fellini.
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