Posted on 06/15/2011 6:50:47 PM PDT by decimon
Pasta has topped a global survey of the world's favourite foods. So how did the dish so closely associated with Italy become a staple of so many tables around the globe?
While not everyone knows the difference between farfalle, fettuccine and fusilli, many people have slurped over a bowl of spaghetti bolognese or tucked into a plate of lasagne.
Certainly in British households, spaghetti bolognese has been a regular feature of mealtimes since the 1960s. It's become a staple of children's diets, while a tuna-pasta-sweetcorn concoction can probably be credited with sustaining many students through their years at university.
But now a global survey by the charity Oxfam has named pasta as the world's most popular dish, ahead of meat, rice and pizza. As well as being popular in unsurprising European countries, pasta was one of the favourites in the Philippines, Guatemala, Brazil and South Africa.
And figures from the International Pasta Organisation show Venezuela is the second largest consumer of pasta, after Italy. Tunisia, Chile and Peru also feature in the top 10, while Mexicans, Argentineans and Bolivians all eat more pasta than the British.
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It is a complex carbohydrate which releases all the goodness slowly and you feel satisfied for a long time.
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A friend of mine is from Albuquerque and she says our Mexican food in NorCal is crap.
I favor Italian women, Mexican food, German cars and Irish music.
My Italian wife’s family serves pasta with mustard greens and olive oil.
Well you have a pretty precise opinion on the vast region and selection, especially the part about them being open Christians, my Texan, New Mexican, Californian, Hispanic American family members all share my view.
I haven’t been there recently, we usually stick to the west side of the mountains. But the A&W drive-in there used to have out-of-this-world hamburgers.
Yes, I have my doubts about their story, especially since they want to credit the Arabs for introducing spaghetti. East Asians do seem very fond of noodles.
Thank God for Dreamfields low-carb pastas. Rotini, mmm, mmm, mmm!
It’s my favorite
Do you make your own fry bread for the N. tacos. Mine never comes out fluffy and puffy like the real thing.
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