Cassey Hollinghurst: Alfredo Di Lelio, at his first restaurant Alfredo on the Via della Scrofa in Rome in 1914. Alfredo Di Lelio, who sold said restaurant in 1943, opened again in 1950 at Piazza Augusto Imperatore his restaurant "Il Vero Alfredo", that is still managed by the nephews Alfredo and Ines Di Lelio, continuing the tradition of the original fettuccine created by their grandfather.Though pasta with butter and cheeseâ€""fettuccine in bianco" or "fettuccine burro e parmigiano"â€"is common, the name "fettuccine Alfredo" is rarely used in Italy. The story I read in a cook book was that he turned the sauce in personally with a golden spoon or it could have been fork....Show more
Garrett Detone: The first Italian food "brought" to America was by Thomas Jefferson who planted a number of european plants & brought back recipes as well.The alleged first Italian restaurant was owned by the Delmonico family in NYC who had a very popular restaurant in downtown old NYC. ! They were primarily a steak & beef house though.during the late 19th century when a large influx of Italian immigrants came to America they came from primarily the Naples area or Sicily. They could not get Italian ingredients in America at that time & improvised on Italian recipes they knew from the homeland.Over the years it morphed into what you see on American menus of Italian food. The same with Chinese food.some Italian restuarants now try to appeal to their customer base not to be authentic Italian food.The quality of Italian produced food in Italy is greater than in America. As most Italians in America now are 2nd or 3rd generation & many of the families married persons of a different cultural heritage tastes change.Argentina is another example of this where they eat much more beef than America does & does not even compare to the amount of beef eaten in Italy which is rather little.I also found that the area from where my family was from in Basilicata the main protei! n food eaten by the peasantry was rabbitt or hare, due to the ! impoverished lives most southern Italians used to live with. Since WW2 the times have changed....Show more
Sammy Tabatt: Because real Italian food is plain to the point of being boring. So we fixed it.What's the point of pasta with unseasoned tomatoes on it? or with a leaf of basil and a cup of cheese?" If i go to Indian or Chinese restaurant, i eat things cooked like in India or China, ...???"You are wrong there! Chinese food is nothing like you get at the local wokkery.General Tso's or Kung pao chicken? American inventions. Do you think the Chinese import sherry for cooking?People won't go out to dinner and spend $15 a person for "boring."Yeah, work in little Italy and everything the "just off the boat" Italians really rave about "being like home" is just tomato, basil and cheese. The only thing of interest is all the hot Italian sausage....Show more
Darren Heling: I think it's to be expected that restaurants in the United States would offer foods that America! ns like. It seems we like foods with an Italian influence more than we like authentic Italian foods. The same is true of Asian foods. Asian restaurants in the United States serve foods with an Asian flair, not the foods you would find in Asia.
Jamika Gregorio: What are General Tso's and Kung pao chicken? I mean that Chinese food in Italy (i never tried it in the USA because i've never been in the USA) tastes different from Italian one. Maybe it's not completely original, but the things you eat at the Chinese Restaurant can't be found in our cuisine, so i think it's less contaminated and more similar to the original.Pasta with unseasoned tomatoes? Never heard of. Pasta has thousands of different recipes, for example only with seafoods there are lots of different recipes. Adding ketchup, BBQ sauce or butter everywhere makes it plain. Remember that Italy has different cuisine in every single main town, so you could eat for years always different dishes if you wanted t! o. Simply, i find pointless spoiling the big variety of tastes adding b! utter everywhere!...Show more
Michelle Sohre: So, ethnic cuisine is more similar to the original where there are less immigrants and from less time.This happens because immigrants, living in a new country, "contaminate" their cuisine with the local one.Ok, but today, when you can easily find the recipes online and the ingredients in any supermarket, why do they still call that "Italian" cuisine, should be called "Italo-American" cuisine!...Show more
Iris Shawcroft: @Prof: pasta "in bianco" or "Alfredo" as you call it, in Italy is the pasta given to sick people or in hospital. Eating "in bianco" means that you are sick and you want a light meal.
Benny Stehno: england,uk-chicken tikka pizza anyone
Russ Kiernan: Ciao, I'm Italian too :-)As far as I know spaghetti w meatballs (polpette) are or used to be popular in the south of Italy, while there actually was a popular restaurant in Rome where you could order fettuccine with butter and cheese.... and the! owner's name was Alfredo. I found an article on an old 70s magazine that my mom forgot in the bottom of a drawer. I was stunned, I too thought "fettuccine Alfredo" were an all-American invention.Bolognese sauce is indeed ragù, while "bologna" is the name of a popular cold cut similar to mortadella.They call it "Italian cuisine" because we're supposed to have the best food in the world, so Italian restaurants are appealing to customers.By the way, I'm not quite sure that when we go to a chinese restaurant we have proper chinese food.....It's the same all around the world, foreign recipes and dishes are contaminated by the local cuisine and adjusted to suit the natives.@Le Mer, I understand that you never tasted real Italian food, which can in no way be considered boring. You didn't fix it, you spoiled it.No one eats pasta with unseasoned tomatoes or a leaf of basil, what you americans don't understand is that you don't need ounces of butter cream to have a tasty treat, you! just need high quality ingredients, not deep fried frozen stuff with t! ons of processed cheese ontop.Your taste buds have probably turned dumb from junk food overeating, give them a break and fly over to Italy, they'll thank you for life....Show more
Tyree Allenbrand: @Del Mer: http://www.buonissimo.org/regionale/There are more than 7500 REAL italian dishes, watch them, use google translate if you don't understand, tell me if they are "plain".You can tell you don't like a cuisine without tons of butter, but you can't say it's plain just because you don't even know it.
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