Why Italians NEVER Eat Spaghetti and Meatballs | The Rules of Authentic Italian Pasta
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Authentic Italian Food | The Rules of Authentic Italian Pasta | How to Make Italian Pasta
Did you know that Italians never eat spaghetti and meatballs? And that they have a complex system of rules governing which sauces go with which kind of pasta? I sure didn’t!
After I make the unforgivable sin of serving my Italian wife, Eva, a plate of spaghetti and meatballs, she gives me (and the viewers at home!) a crash course in the Rules of Authentic Italian Pasta.
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FETTUCINE AND MEATBALL RECIPE
(Serves Four)
The Pasta:
Make a hollowed mound using 3 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour. Crack five eggs into the hollow. Using a fork, begin whisking the eggs and gradually mix the flour in. When the dough thickens, knead it by hand until very smooth and even. Add flour as necessary if it's too sticky.
Cut the pasta dough into manageable portions (about the size of a fist) and roll out until it is very thin, no thicker than 1/16th of an inch. Lightly dust the pasta before rolling it up in 1-inch folds. Slice the roll into even, 1/4-inch pieces. Gently toss the pasta to unroll the strands, then place on a tray or plate for cooking later.
The Meatballs:
Using your hands, mix 1/2 lb lean ground beef and 1/2 lb ground pork with two eggs, 3 1/2 oz. of grated parmigiano cheese, 1.5 oz. pecorino cheese (optional), one clove of minced garlic, and a generous dash of salt and pepper to taste. Add bread crumbs until the mixture is firm enough to roll into solid balls (approximately 4 cups but this will vary depending on bread type). Roll the meat into 1 1/2-inch meatballs.
The Sauce:
In a small saucepan, add a bottle (about 24 oz.) of tomato puree, 2 tbsp. olive oil, and one whole clove of garlic. Mix in 12 oz. of water and a pinch of salt. Cook over medium heat, partially covered, for 10-15 minutes. Add meatballs and continue to cook over low heat for an hour. Add salt as needed to taste.
Putting It All Together:
Bring a large pot of water to boil. Salt generously, then add pasta and cook for three minutes. Drain pasta and place back in the pot. Ladle 3-4 scoops of tomato sauce from the meatballs over the pasta, and stir in for one minute.
Serve pasta on a plate, ladle meatballs and extra sauce on top, and grate fresh parmigiano cheese over all.
Buon appetito!
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"Now do you understand why meatballs cannot go on spaghetti? ".
"Nope, not at all." 😂😂
Artifex that is not quite true.
In the Abruzzo region, they make “chitarra” with polpette (meatballs). The Abruzzese meatballs are more little than American ones, which are more in the central Italian/neapolitan style.
In my grandma’s house, at least once every two weeks there is pasta with meatballs (altough the tomato sauce, homemade, is cooked with the polpette and mixed with the pasta, unlike Americans which put the sauce directly over the pasta as if it was ketchup on fries...😂).
@@Franco-in9jo little balls and chitarra is absolutely a different meatball game. Don't forget that different pasta size include different sauce..
Harper spends the next week on the sofa.
I'm sure Italians are fighting over it!
@@Franco-in9jo vinceros plate made a recipie that sounds like what you’re talking about. It’s called making spaghetti and meatballs like and Italian.
for Americans it can be confusing, but for Italians that live in Italy it comes natural to know what goes with what, for us it's like breathing
che DIO ti benedica!!!! :)
@Michael Gamble first the church,then the kitchen. Well...not necessary in this order AHAHAHAH
Sorry arrivagabry.... you right.... and we here aren’t speak about risotto, crespelle, gnocchi, cus cus....
For every question call me...
Actually not everyone knows exactly, but we learn and do it the right way, so all of the world can too.
@Michael Gamble A friend of mine she has an Italian BF. He makes the worst pasta. Overcooked. Bad ingredients. I hope he is is just an exception.
My grandfather was from Pisa and my grandmother from Sicily and we grew up with spaghetti and meatballs. It's an American thing. Many times after immigrating to America the same ingredients could not be found and dishes changed. Later many Italian corner grocers opened and sold Italian imports. My grandfather grew his own Basil, Mint, Cardones, Cacuzza Squash, etc....
Yeah my college roommate's grandma from Sicily used to come visit us and make spaghetti and meatballs. Then she'd freeze all the extra meatballs for us poor college students to eat after she left. MMmmmmmm. when I was pregnant, she visited me and taught me how to make them, as well as the sauce, and some other dishes of her's that I love. Now my teenage daughters can make these recipes.
@@phatmonkey11 Michelle, I had a big smile on my face when I saw this post. When my daughter was in college I would take the train in to see her and would always be carrying Pasta w/Meatballs or Sausages, Lasagna, Pasta Fagioli,.....some food that was a recipe of my Sicilian Grandmother. It always lite up my daughters face, as well as her roommates and friends! Nearly 20 years later her friend who lives afar mentions those meals I would bring (and I have never thought of myself as some exceptional cook either) and how much he enjoyed them and felt loved that he was thought of. If you are still connected to your college roommate, send her a note as a reminder of how much you enjoyed that ! Memories make us smile, don't they !
You did so in america. No where in italy do they eat "spaghetti and meatballs". Dont bother attempting to lie. Its a 100% american thing. Go to italy or sicily right now and ask for it, they will laugh you out of the room
@@jonathansoko1085 That's what Linda Star said , it's an American thing. No body is trying to lie.
Harper is - quite possibly - the most fortunate man in the entire universe. Thank you, Eva, for your amazing recipes!!
Fact: all Italians are taught this, and the ones who don't learn it, get exiled to America.
And I'm glad they're here! I love Italian-American food.
😂😂
The fun fact is that basically we grow up knowing this. I know all of these rules but i CAN'T remember ONE instance in which someone told me anything of this. Also she's 100% spot on.
is this a new rule? I asked my zia abt this and she said there’s no rule like that lol
She is exiled to America(marrying an American)..
But she taught us about this..
This is pretty funny to me as an Italian American who still has family in Italy. What Eva is leaving out is that these rules are very regional, and what is 'law' in one place might be sacrilege in another. The complexity however, remains constant. 😄
Rules are regional (hell, it comes down to household and there's even arguments within a household), but if you go to Italy expecting to find SOMEWHERE that meatballs and spaghetti is a thing then you might as well search for that town in America where meatloaf is always served with a dog turd laid on top. It just doesn't happen. 😋
I've worked across Italy, and the only times I've seen spaghetti and meatballs in Italy is when going to a tourist restaurant that is open way too early to be serving dinner to Italians (or French, British, Spanish, Portuguese!). Unfortunately, sometimes these are the only restaurants around if you want to eat with a particular view.
@@donkmeister You should watch the videos by Italia Squisita on spaghetti and meatballs. They're from Teramo in Abruzzo, but never spread to the rest of Italy.
@@rebeccahicks2392 yup, spaghetti alla chitarra e polpettine. Italians are like that. If we don't know it, it doesn't exist. But the dish does exists in abruzzo, only the meatballs are much smaller. Thing is, italians from one region hate food from all other regions as a rule. Not me though.
@@rebeccahicks2392 When Americans talk about "spaghetti and meatballs" they are talking about polpette, not polpettine. So, one town that makes a dish that is superficially similar is like pointing to that regional chinese dish with minced meat and sauce with noodles and saying that the Chinese eat ragu. Nope, spaghetti and meatballs is not Italian, even if one town makes something similar.
ETA sorry that comes across as rude, I didn't mean it that way 😀
@@claudiopastore why u speak for all italians? Its true the opposite, we regularly eat food from other regions as well.
I heard somewhere it is because of the pasta thickness that makes the difference, large pasta holds heavy tomato, beef sauces better and absorbs most of it's flavour, as with fresh pasta too. Dry long pasta is better for thinner silkier sauces like the carbonara, or simply olive oil with fish. In the end it's about making sense, a thin pasta like spaghetti will just slide in the tomato sauce not really absorbing it and not having the heaviness to sustain the large chunks of large meat on top
You got it!
Holy crap that actually does make a lot of sense
It seems so obvious now that I actually hear it
Finally a descriptive reason.
“Marry an Italian woman they said.....” this guy
😂 😂 😂
She’s got some great hair
I love it! The deepest black ever... Sort of natural and retro, not overly coiffed or anything. She's an original.
@@frankdiehl8749 Not even close to natural. A bad black dye job ...
@@williampotter2098 He, I'm as nice as I can be, alright? She's showing some grey here and there, so I get it.
Some men experience it at a young age, and it usually looks great and sophisticated. It's different for a women I suppose, greying a little prematurely.
@@williampotter2098 She's awesome. As are her opinions..
William Potter dude it’s a part of the Schitck and the channel .
Then there’s my slovak grandparents who are like “ there’s a bunch ah different ways to make stuffed cabbage, and sour mushroom soup” 😂😂😭❤️
Ah.....Just had a Halupki and Cabbage and Noodles on Wed. Chicken Paprikash is on my menu for Sunday.
I am half Polish/Hungarian.
:) But remember, there's only ONE way to make a proper goulash.
@@vevepriezviskova6909 not quite. but theres only one way to ruin it for sure: if you dont make it a soup
Nothing beats a nice Sarma with roasted garlic peppers and homemade bread!
The main reason Italians immigrated to the America's was for the freedom to put meatballs on their pasta...they escaped the Italian Pasta Cabal...
lololololol
Lmafo
hahaha ^^
change pusher
Good one. It was Mussolini who made up all these pasta rules.
I would rather sit down and eat a bowl of meatballs and a beautiful tomato sauce but some crusty bread on the side then anything else
I am Italian -American and I get it. It is very specific to their traditions. When in Italy, the Italians know their food pairings hands down. Never had a bad meal there. Bon Appetite folks!
Husband: Tries to do kind gesture.
Italian: Wtf is this?? Why’d you put meatballs on the spaghetti??
Italian food is shit Russian food much better
@@erichkaufmann5284 Who's ever heard of Russian food?
@@erichkaufmann5284 u shouldn't say that... Have some manners
Proverbially, no good deed goes unpunished.
@@erichkaufmann5284 no
The most basic rule with Italian food: eat what you like. Just make sure you cook with love, use as much fresh and good quality ingredients and look forward to feed the family, enjoy their company and laugh a lot. And never argue with nonna about how things are to be cooked.
And keep you dishes simple, just a few ingredients including lots of love
Exactly 😂❤️
@yabghus cheese and olive oil too
And DON'T USE CREAM
I learn the most important lesson here: let the italians do the pasta. Don't try and fail, just let them do it.
Nah many countries enjoy pasta. They can do their own thing and others can do theirs. I will do mine :)
Or learn from an authentic Italian cook if you want to make _Italian pasta._ Otherwise, make whatever kind of pasta you want as long as you like it, just don't serve it to the OGs lol
gatekeeping food for what?
They stole it from the Chinese though (at least according to chef Alvin Leung)
@Italian Cuss Words Generator 1.0 at least your honest that you're a pos
I’m from Tuscany, we use to eat pasta with meat balls. But we use little balls
I’ll remember that.
quella è una ricetta vera e propria, quindi non sfora nei canoni
*Beavis & Butthead laughing*
Sure dude? I can say the opposite... 🤣
I live in Tuscany, near Florence, my Mother was from Piemonte, but we did never eat pasta with meatballs. We can eat pasta with "ragù alla bolognese" (the ragù with the same meat of, but not the meat balls).
Maybe you can find this receipt, I think, in Naples.
I'm italian and in my family we put leftovers meatballs in pasta and it tastes really good 😋😋😋.
(We also crush leftovers meatballs to make Bolognese sauce) a fun and simple way to use leftovers!
Her handwriting looks like her accent sounds I love it 😍
When I hear Eva's reasoning and logic, it makes me cry happy-sad tears. I had a beautiful love affair for 3 years with a man from Citta Ducale and I came to love the way Italians talk to each other and the way they live. I miss being around Italians and I'm so happy to have found your channel so I can spend some time listening to Eva.
And you didn't even mention pesto and trofie, pizzoccheri and orecchiette with cime di rapa...and so on...great videos by the way...!
Don’t worry, we’ll make a sequel! Thanks for watching!
Now im hungry
Be carefull if you will do the pesto. Here in Genoa there's some talibans touchy and dangerous...
Ooooh there are MANY things left... this was just a little introduction 😂
And pasta al nero di sepia. Which IS the standard combo for fish and sea food fruto di mare in general.
I wanted pasta until I saw this. I have a headache now and I'm just gonna have a hamburger instead.
Lol
Think I'll thaw a stouffers frozen lasagne..meat lovers version.
@@samlinkin31 yep..pretty close to my homemade.
Lol
I love how confused Harper looks! he's so funny!😂
I'm an Italian, I've never seen or heard this scheme anywhere, it will be instinct or common sense I don't know, but I've always respected it !!
If you really want to horrorify your wife have her watch the scene in Elf when Will Ferrell is wolfing down the spaghetti with M&M's, marshmallows, maple syrup, crumbled up pop tarts
Hah!!! Good idea!
Yeah! That is pretty horrifying! Lol
Sadist 😂
Eva is so cute ♥️ I just love her fierce Italian personality ♥️
You just made her day! Thanks for watching!
Yup, and I'm surprised Harper isn't 400lbs since she seems like an amazing cook and I would be pigging out 24/7 on all her food!😂👍❤
@@spendingtimetogether8428 quality is more important than quantity.
You don't need huge quantities of food if what you eat is delicious. 😉
@@lupodelnord makes sense👍
She’s an Italian Karen, somehow that’s tolerated
2:30 her handwriting is itallian as well
As an Italian I find this explanation very amusing and accurate. That's correct, you won't find tortellini Alla Bolognese very often in Italy, but, when in Bologna you will, and they're mouthwatering. Bravi ragazzi, bel canale ;)
Hey, being an Italian, can you confirm if its true that Italians don't put chicken on pizza? Because I heard from somewhere that Italians don't put chicken on pizza while chicken pizza is something I've grown up eating....
@@morreta6402 Hi, I'm from Italy (northern part), and even here it is not common at all, you won't find it on the menu in pizzerias and I'm pretty sure they don't even have it in stock. If you want proteins on your pizza, we usually choose ham or spicy salami
@@nowekant93 Thanks a lot for educating me! I heard the authentic Italian pizza usually has tomato sauce, herbs and very little cheese, clean and healthy and absolutely heartwarming :)
@@morreta6402 well we also have white pizzas or pizzas with more cheese than just mozzarella, nowadays there is really a vast choice and many pizzerias have their own proposals. Of course to each their own, from kebab pizzerias to higher quality pizzerias-restaurants
@@morreta6402 Chicken pizza was developed on the American west coast, I believe. It's also very recent in terms of its history. Personally, I hate chicken in pizza. Even barbecue pizza.
"From now to the future, let me do all the cooking." Eeeee...! If only someone would say that to me!🍝🍕🍜🍲🍷💞
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mission accomplished.
Naughty Harper!
When a pasta lesson turns complicated as mathematics at the end 😂😂
😂
I'm literally writing this down and going through the comments for extra tips. Taking notes for future reference. (My grandma is part italian, that side of the family came over to America after Stalin's regime I believe. Oldest relative we can trace back on that side is a man named Giovanni. I think there's been maybe 4, encroaching on 5, generations in the family since him.) Anyway, point is, i like learning n this is a great channel/learning experience.
I friggin' LOVE these two! Really feelin' their synergy. And I think it's awesome how she really clears up so many American Scorsese-esque misconceptions about Italian culture & cuisine. And they do it all in such a fun and loving way. God bless them...
Thank you!!!
Sono d'accordo!
Also important: time! Between draining, plating, saucing and eating: 30 seconds max, or the pasta "scuoce" (overcooks) and is no longer "al dente".
I've heard that in Italy if your people have lived in a town for 10 generations and you make ravioli the same as your ancestors, people in a different town 5 miles away will think of you as a "straniero" (foreigner) who has no idea how to make ravioli.
That is kind of true. Maybe less so nowadays. Italy for much of its history was a bunch of separate city states.
Actually, where I live in Italy there's a recipe called "chitarra con le pallotte", which is a thicker fresh egg long pasta with tomato sauce and really tiny meatballs. They are usually made on holidays or Sunday family lunch.
I dont get this " italians never eat spaghetti with meatballs " narrative ffs Sicilians from the village my family is from have pasta shuta with polpetti every Sunday it makes me cringe when people say Italians don't eat spaghetti with meatballs.
@@alde1611 I mean, for what the italians means as "polpette", it's pretty hard to find it with pasta so I'm not blaming anyone for not knowing it. But there're some regional recipes that actually uses polpette, made from different meat mixes, with pasta. Maybe the most known is lasagna napoletana which actually contains small polpette and is eaten during Carnival
Vengo dalla Puglia e anche qua si mangia la pasta con polpette. Addirittura gli antichi facevano le polpette di pane perché nel dopoguerra la carne non era sempre disponibile
@@alde1611 since you write pasta shuta instead of pastasciutta we italians can tell you don't know what you are talking about
We know these rules just because we are Italian. This made me laugh so hard. 🤣🤣🤣
And it is true. That's the way it is I can assure you
I learned the rules from living with an Italian
I mean, you live all your life never eating linguine with tomato sauce. So then you know by heart that you don't do it. And this for so many different dishes.
People who cook and think about it know or at least have a glance why it is so.
Linguine to me are for creamy sauces with a steady taste. They have the body to support them.
That is basically the reason why pappardelle and all tagliatelle kind of pasta are good with mushrooms.
I don't agree with mushrooms and parmigiano (that I see quite spread here in Italy too) but I'd never argue with Eva.
This is so ...woah, I love the complexity of these pasta rules and I can understand why they are this way. At the same time my mind is blown
This video perfectly captures why foreigners struggle with Italian food culture and why italians and foreigners often clash when the foreigners try to approach italian food.
There are a lot of things that Italian grow up and are infused with about their food culture that is intuitive to them. But to a foreigner it's not intuitive and most of the time nobody makes the effort to ask or answer the question: WHY?
To the italian it's intuitive they often might not even be able to verbalize why themselves. The foreigner often doesn't even realise that what he is missing is the reason why you don't ad cream to the carbonara, eat meatballs with spaghetti or why not every italian dish is prepared with garlic.
They were not raised with the food culture.
It's like learning a language from someone who grew up speaking it.
They can tell you how to say things but more often than not they don't know why.
Pasta grammar is a very appropriate name for the channel.
The thing is, food in Italian is very regional. Spaghetti and meatballs actually are from Italy, but they're from Abruzzo and never really spread to other regions.
@@rebeccahicks2392 I'm from Abruzzo and I can say that you are right..we don't get scornful watching at a plate of spaghetti and meat balls
Very well said
I am from Apulia and here we actually do have spaghetti with meatballs, or "braciola" rolled meat with cheese inside. My grandma make pasta with fake meatballs, (made only with bread, eggs and parmisan cheese) that was an ancient recepy when meat was not available for poor people.
Wise words from Davie504:
*_NEVER BREAK THE SPAGHETTI_*
But you can *_SLAP_* it
you can break in tiny piece for some minestra (it like soup [zuppa] but little different)
My dad always cuts the (entire plate) long pasta with a fork and knife. He tried that in a restaurant in Italy once, the waiter exclaimed "L'ha assassinato!" and took it away, bringing a new plate. He had to eat it the proper way for once, ashamed.
@@SergioLeRoux we dont call dad anymore in Italy
I was so glad to see meatballs being cooked in tomato sauce! That's how my mother made them and it's how I make them (and I serve them with fettucine, not spaghetti, because I agree that spaghetti doesn't go well with them, you need a flat noodle) but I have caught a lot of flak from non-Italian people telling me i must always bake my meatballs to be "authentic." Eva to the rescue!
??? Koofte are originally from Iran. Koofte goes back way before the oven and is usually cooked inside a tomato based sauce here. Ignore them 😭
Hey man please do a part 2 of pasta rules. Looking forward
Plot twist: go to Italy and the rules are different in every house.
never seen bloody meatballs on spaghetti mate
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@@alde1611 that's because you are not italian. Pasta asciutta btw, ciao!
@@alde1611 i'm italian and maybe in sicily eat spaghetti and polpettine but polpettine is different from polpette, polpette almost every time goes with fettuccine
No
Quando Eva ha iniziato ad impastare le tagliatelle, mi sono emozionato ❤️
Andrea Leonti siamo in due!
Andrea Leonti siamo in tre! ahhah xD
facciamo 4 va
5
6 ho visto l'oro in quelle mani!
In my family we use to put "polpettine" (which means little meatballs) on spaghetti. From what I know it's not very common but definitely lots of families do that, especially in southern regions. And sicilian cooking is among the best three in Italy in my opinion.
Le polpettine hanno senso con gli spaghetti, le infilzi col la forchetta e ci giri gli spaghetti intorno. Gli Americani fanno polpette grosse come bombe a mano, non hanno senso con gli spaghetti
Mah, non ci trovo nulla di male in fondo anche in quel caso. Noi italiani creiamo regole culinarie che spesso non hanno senso e ci attacchiamo ad esse perché ci sappiamo mettere in discussione troppo poco.
@@Elvisredbaron Ha senso però, te l'ho appena spiegato 😅 ogni regola ha una ragione legata al gusto o alle proprietà del cibo. Per esempio non si può mangiare il pane con la pasta perché sono una vagonata di carboidrati. Gli Americani lo fanno, per abitudine o perché gli piace, ma la vagonata di carboidrati resta
@@HScreecHC In alcune regioni d'Italia è normale mangiare pasta con patate e fagioli, è un piatto frugale e ovviamente calorico in modo voluto.
Alcune regole della nostra cucina sono senz'altro di buonsenso e di praticità, però spesso e volentieri siamo i primi a non applicarle per ragioni ignote. Più esco dall'Italia e più mi rendo conto che certi abbinamenti vanno meglio di quanto non penseremmo.
@@Elvisredbaron spiegami in che modo pasta, patate e fagioli sarebbe calorico
News to me. I found meatballs all over spaghetti in Italy. Rome, Milan, Florence.
You named very touristic cities. The rules are only for Italians, they come with the identity card.
We Greeks make fantastic pasta dishes ,the difference with Italian dishes being that Greek dishes have a much stronger flavour and are heavier to the stomach.
What surprised me the first time I tasted real Italian pasta dishes from an Italian chef,a friend of mine named Roberto ,was the fact that he could make amazing dishes with 3- 4 ingredients ! The taste and flavour of the Italian cuisine despite its simplicity still astonishes me to this day. If you ask me which pasta dishes I prefer,Greek or Italian, I'd say both. Both cuisines have their winners !
We agree!! ❤️
Agreed. I had pasta from an Italian chef in Thessaloniki and it was noticeably lighter than the Greek equivalent would be, even when the ingredients seemed heavy.
this is the most educational Italian pasta cuisine that I had seen in my life
That was just the best chart ever❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️God bless Eva and her marvelous cooking.
I love it! Congrats, this video is awesome!
this all makes sense! When I went to Italy 10yrs ago, I was upset that I could never find spaghetti with meatballs! I heard you had to go to southern Italy to find meatballs. Anyways, now I want some pasta!
If CZcams had a “love” button which overrides the “like” button I would FOR SURE have pressed it for this video!! I feel a binge watch of this channel coming on and I am looking forward to it!! Much love from an Englishman who knows nothing of authentic Italian cuisine but I’m sure that will change!! Keep it up!! 👍🇬🇧 🇮🇹
Thank you so much for watching, and for your encouraging words!
Here in Argentina we also inherited most of those pasta varieties. Included gnocchi, ravioli stuffed with ricota and spinach, and also the tradition of fresh pasta on sundays. BUT sadly I have to tell you that we accept the combination of spaghetti with meatballs... Hope you visit Buenos Aires one day! Saludos
I love your channel and I love the chemistry / dynamic between the two of you! I am also learning a lot about Italian cuisine and culture! Thank you both for this video series!
Giusto per chiarire: in Italia ci mangiamo la pasta con qualsiasi cosa dai frutti di mare, alle sarde passando per ragu di lepre piuttosto che la salsa di noci...percui é vero che in alcune regioni, su 40 primi piatti tipici, ci stanno PURE gli spaghetti con le polpettine (piccole, non in pallettoni da un etto l'uno).... ma sostenere che questo sia un primo tipicamente italiano é una boiata.
Mi si puó dire che la lasagna, i ravioli in brodo, i maccheroni al ragu, gli spaghetti allo scoglio etc. sono "tipici italiani"....ma spaghett&purpett sono una americanata e basta (sono milanese di nascita cresciuto negli USA e ormai tornato a milano da 30 anni).
I won't translate this because it's just a sidenote for some of my fellow Italian commentators. :-)
Il fatto è che non viene servito nei ristoranti, ma le nonne, le persone di una certa età fanno continuamente questi piatti qui al sud (spaghetti con polpette di tutte le dimensioni). Quindi ti assicuro che è tipicamente italiano, ma un italiano un po' retrò, che oramai sta scomparendo assieme alle vecchie generazioni. È sempre sbagliato assolutizzare verità che sono invece molto relative
@@sunnyday173 ... A Napoli si usano le polpettine (molto piccole) da aggiungere nel sugo della lasagna. Quello di fare le polpette nel sugo e poi condire la pasta lunga (spaghetti) è un usanza tipica del sud credo diffusa in Calabria. In genere una cottura lunga della salsa con carne (in questo caso polpette) non va accompagnata ad una pasta lunga e secca come gli spaghetti sia perché non sono in grado di assorbire una salsa densa (cosa che invece una pasta fresca tipo scialatielli o fusilli farebbe meglio), sia perché non possono raccogliere residui di carne al loro interno. Quindi in alcune zone d'Italia in genere queste polpette vengono mangiate come una sorta di secondo subito dopo gli spaghetti (che come dicevo non andrebbero usati). Alcune nonne magari per anticipare la portata delle polpette le aggiungevano subito agli spaghetti.
I don't care if People in Italy don't eat spaghetti and meatballs. Half my family is Italian (I am not) and I have had old school Italian food. Love it. I also like spaghetti and meatballs. I also like Chicago style pizza. Food is not about rules, it is about taste and you like what you like. I like the tacos at Jack in the Box and those are most definitely not Mexican.
Sure... if you want u can eat and mix whatever u want with your personal taste, but it doesnt mean your taste is good
@@Nightmare888999 that goes for signature dishes as well tho, what is tasty for one doesnt have to be good for the other person.
As long they dont call spaghetti +meatballs Carbonara it's OK, while making original dishes one can stay to orginial recipe...look at this way im 100% sure in different regions in Italy is Carbonara made slightly different..that applies to almost all food. Usually when i do a slight change in recipe and present it to someone else i pronounce original name and add "ala Me(or my name)" :D simple. This video shows Italians like most conservative nation on the planet , im pretty sure some of em actully eats meatballs with spaghetti :D
@@Nightmare888999 czcams.com/video/djMmFopOmx0/video.html Watch the video, learn something. Taste is based on what you grew up with, not with an exact worse or better.
@@johncarpenter987 so michelin inspector decision is based on their personal behaviour and taste....sounds good!
@@Nightmare888999 lol. You dont know much about the senses. None of us hear the same, see the same, smell the same or taste the same. The senses are individual and all are limited. Do you understand that smell has more effect on what we taste than anything else. I hate onions, I cook with them for others; but, I find them slimy. When I went to Guy Savoy's in Vegas, he served me foamed onions and some very expensive mushroom, I ate them both and enjoyed it. I am not afraid of new tastes why are you? Why do you believe everyone must enjoy the same tastes you do, I don't. You must be better and have a better pallet.
This was fun to watch!! How informative 🤗
you two just slay me ... between "Chef Alfredo" and the sub-titles when Eva is speaking (I understand her without them ;-) I find myslef getting up off ot he floor from laughter. Also, I love that at the end you always cook something. I am inspired by your videos so much that I have declared my house a "Pasta Only" Zone!
"What about pastina, can bolognese go with pastina?"
"JESUS, NO!"
That only made sense to me because as a kid I hated Bolognese.
I laughed at that comment and then started wondering if Eva would show us how to make authentic bolognese?
LOL. You don't have to be Italian to know this is patently absurd.
F for kids
Bolognese? Why would you serve a person from Bologna as food? I'll eat some tagliatelle al ragu whilst I ponder this.
I've seen simpler NFL playbooks.
The English language has less nuance.
Electricians have an easier time.
I love it.
With love, i say she is killing me. Sounds like, rosana, rosana dana... from SNL in the 70's and early 80's...
Just 70s
@@williamjordan5554 yeah, Gilda passed on young.
I just found this channel and I'm obsessed! You guys are so sweet! And I love your recipes!
Guys, your video is amazing!! Finally, every single person out of Italy can learn how to eat pasta!!
Bravi bravi bravi!
Italians have learned about the existence of Spaghetti and Meatballs by watching American movies and TV shows.
Io andando nei ristoranti di Chicago dove se vuoi puoi ordinare la pasta e fagioli e ti portano il formaggio se gia' non e' sulla pasta!
NO! Chitarra alla teramana is an Italian dish made with egg based spaghetti that is served in tomato sauce and small meatballs.
@@recruitmentch But how many people know it? From what you see on TV every Italian seems to eat it in the US, but Abruzzo is quite a small region and Italian immigrants are from all over the country. I'm Italian and I never heard of that dish before, and it's understandable because we have so many pasta shapes and recipes that it would be impossible to know them all. Since I find it hard to believe that people from Sicilia or Campania would adopt a pasta dish from another region out of the blue, I'm convinced that they saw it and replicated it. BTW most Italian-Americans couldn't find Teramo on a map and if you ask them where spaghetti and meatballs come from, they wouldn't have an answer, whereas every goddamn nonna on the planet knows her pasta.
@@alexandrorocca7142 you've never heard of spaghetti alla chitarra?? I'm not talking about Americans. I come from milano and I know chitarra alla teramana! It's just knowledge of pasta!
@@recruitmentch I have spaghetti alla chitarra in my pantry right now, but that's a shape of pasta, not a dish. The fact that you know it doesn't mean that most Italians do. I guess that most people in the south never heard of polenta taragna either. 😋
The Route Planning scene in "Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century", except with Italian Pasta.
Harper's wink at the end was everything.
; )
Okay i understand that an Italian person might give it some grief because it's not traditional for them or it's an americanized version of their cuisine, but i LOVE spaghetti and meatballs, it's a match made in heaven and it's my favorite food of all time. Meatballs and spaghetti belong together, and i will die on that hill 😩 lmao
As an Italian raised in an Italian family eating Italian food, I agree 100% with you.
Don't worry, I am 100% italian living in Italy and I sware you we do Cook spaghetti and meatballs (at least in Apulia)
As a european I agree, it blends perfectly well... Dishes change and Sphagetti and Meatballs is the prime example of a dish working really well!
Just to be sure, Bolognese is more a "ragù" than a sauce, thus explaining the right matches? What does Eva think about it?
Keep up the good work, your channel(s) is great, you guys are up to, and building, something great!
MrAymardo Thanks for watching! Eva says yes, in fact bolognese is properly called “ragù alla bolognese.”
I love your channel and your videos. My family is from Calabria, and Eva reminds me so much of them. She reminds me of how much care and pride they had for Italian food.
Thanks learned a lot!! The Information will go in my cooking database and archive.
Spaghetti with meatballs are cooked only by grandmothers for their grandchildren...
@ e questo cosa dovrebbe provare?
ermagico
A me da bambino mia nonna mi faceva gli spaghetti con in ragu di luganega (tipica salsiccia di maiale sottile Lombarda) e lasciava dentro dei bei pezzettoni :-D
Well... her loss. I would be happy to eat that and grateful for such a thoughtful husband.
Sono un tedesco cresciuto in Italia e conosco tutte queste regole e usi e tradizioni della pasta... e guardando questo video esilarante mi rendo conto che queste cose non si imparano... si sanno e basta!!! 😂🤣 Buon appetito a tutti!!
What a hoot! What a great comedy routine! I couldn't stop laughing. Eva is so cute and really Italian. She knows her stuff when it comes to pasta.
"How much time do you have?" :-) Awesome!
Sorry, its just too hard to be Italian. Turning in my membership card.
Thanks for another great looking recipe
In fact, in Abruzzo, chitarra alla teramana is a long spaghetti-like pasta served with small meatballs (polpettine).[11] It is a traditional made-in-Abruzzo recipe. It is generally a first course (primo piatto) prepared with chitarra pasta, pasta cut with a traditional tool called a chitarra (guitar) with cutting wires which resemble guitar strings. The pasta is seasoned with meat or vegetable ragù and served with pallottine ("little balls").
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_and_meatballs
I just watched this video for the first time again, since being introduced to your channel. I have a possible theory on why Italian-American is different from traditional Italian, but it may be a stretch. Italians migrated in masses along with other ethnic groups, one notable group being Greeks. Greeks make these meatballs in sauce (soutzoukakia), use copious amounts of oregano, and also tend to use lots of garlic. A lot of Greeks and Italians intermarried and both were seen as the same by American (and Canadian) society, this is where the phrase "Una faccia una Razza" came from. They also came and struggled under a great deal of poverty (I believe they came during the depression), so you more expensive ingredients like Olive Oil and Parmigianno were replaced with butter, cream, and local cheeses. North American ingredients are comparatively bland compared to ones that grow in hot climates, so I feel immigrant communities were trying to compensate for those lost flavours by utilizing garlic, oregano (as well as other herbs), butter, cream, and other local and affordable ingredients available to them at the time.
That’s a very interesting theory!
Related to this, in Venezuela we call Lasagna "Pasticho" like the dish similar to lasagna called Pastitsio. My nonna immigrated to Venezuela from Foggia as an adult and calls it this, as do all Venezuelas and italo-venezuelans
@@xplastilinaverdex We do have a pasta dish in Greece called Pastitsio, which is a lot like Lasagna, but made with a pasta similar to Bucatini. Specifically made for this dish. It's this pasta mixed with the sauce and topped with a generous layer of Bechamel.
@@lambrospappas578 just realized I didn't finish writing my comment 😅 but yes what I meant to say is that it is a similar name to the Greek Pastitsio although it isn't in any way more similar to it than it is to Lasagna. But it's interesting that this dish from Italians in Venezuela has this name
As an Indian learning some proper Italian recipes, these rules are really helpful :) Please post more such videos and some authentic recipes too!
I've watched this 3 times in a week and have YET to stop laughing! thank youuuuuuu
Such a great video! Thank you!
Bolognese qui, ci tengo a sottolineare come il tortellino al ragù esista e sia in realtà comunemente accettato, benché sicuramente inferiore sotto ogni punto di vista rispetto al brodo.
L’importante è sempre evitare la panna!
ieri in un gruppo di italo americani ho visto un lunghissimo post in cui una ragazza chiedeva ricette alternative alla solita "tortellini salad"
e noi stiamo a discutere se panna sì o panna no, questi nella miglirore delle ipotesi se li magnano freddi co il salame, le olive e i peperoni
Silvia Arrighetti ti svelerò un segreto, a me con la panna piacciono
@@AlbertoCiarrocca ,anche a Bottura piace,e da ristoratore posso garantire,almeno al 90% dei miei clienti
Ma infatti i tortellini al ragù vanno benissimo, come anche al fumé o alla boscaiola..😉
Io il ragù lo mangio con qualsiasi tipo ti pasta mi capiti sotto mano... di solito spaghetti o mezze penne rigate. A volte gnocchetti sardi, se li ho.
Siete simpatici ragazzi, vi auguro buona fortuna con questo canale
Grazie!
You guys are so much fun in the kitchen! 🥰 I LOVE CREATING PASTAS !!!! 👁❤️👁
Whenever you talk with an Italian about cuisine, have in mind that his first neighbor have completely different set of rules.
Not to mention villages, towns, cities or regions.
They are brainwashed by their mothers and grannies that their cuisine is the best and their rules are ultimate. :D:D:D
Uros Marjanovic Italy is the land of culture, art, music. Cuisine just comes after that and if you think otherwise, well, who cares? Just eat your homemade cooking and live happily 🤗
P.s. Don’t be hypocrit and don’t è vero eat pizza, pasta, don’t study italian history (which is Europe ancient history), don’t use words which derive from latin and please, just stai where you are. The world doesn’t need people Who are so Closet-minded.
Ah, don’t go to America, I home you’ll understand why 😊 bye! 🤗
@@CioccoLia I'm from Serbia, which was a part of Yugoslavia, so us and Italians were first neighbors. :D:D:D
I am using words that derive from Latin, I do know a lot about Italian history, I am from Europe, in fact, my country was a part of Roman Empire in its early days and indeed spawned about 9 emperors in the late age. :D:D:D
That being said, today Italians are what I described in my original comment. Mamas and nonnas cooking is alpha and omega in every Italian's life. This also translate to village, town and region. Why they are so diverse, i don't know. But I know that there would be knife fights over should you use spaghetti no.5 or no.7 in your tomato based sauce, or why it is incomprehensible to swap parmigiano to pecorino as a topping.
That is just who you are, I wasn't trying to belittle you. ;)
Uros Marjanovic
Nobody is brainwashed, if you want we can cook together for some friends, you do yours I do mine and let's let them judge...mkay?
@@ClaudeMagicbox Why not other way around? I cook for your friends and you cook for mine? :D
You just kinda supported my theory. :D
@@urosmarjanovic663 I don't approve stereotypes, which I see you use a lot. Well, my mother is a CEO of an important world company, my granma was one of the first woman to graduate (the oldest university in Rome opened the girls' dressing room just for her) so, I don't think you can talk about italians as you like, because you're just wrong 🤷♀️ cooking is my culture, but also many other things. I don't understimate your country and your culture, please do the same.
I don't care what your aim was, you're just talking through stereotypes and that's a horrible thing to do to a country and its people.
As a Sicilian , i really get Eva's sense of humour. :)
Awesome video guys!!!! 😊😊😊😊
Oh dear, this is the best comedy show for ages - and it makes me hungry!
OMG I can just imagine her reaction if she tasted our FILIPINO SPAGHETTI. Hahahaha! Bring her to Jollibee LOL
Lol I know what you mean my wife is Ph
philippino
I think Eva would think Filipino spaghetti was too sweet. I'm Filipino, and my dad taught me to appreciate Italian spaghetti (he served in the US Navy, as a lot of Filipino dads have done). But whenever we got invited to an extended-family party, I would only eat the spaghetti if there were no hot dogs in it. (Ako ay isang kakila-kilabot na Amerikanong ipinanganak na Pilipino!) LOL!
What's Filipino spaghetti?
Dead ☠️ as both a Filipino and Italian
I love the show. I just started watching yesterday and it’s my new favorite.
Thank you!
Love your channel!
HA HA HA. The way she said "what is that??" could be soul crushing! HA HA.
Thats make sense why sometime the sauce wont get match with any type of pasta .. wow thats blowing my head out
"Nobody puts meatballs on spaghetti!"
the 1st pasta dish that I ever learn is meatballs on spaghetti =D
You are in America now...adjust little bit.
No, that's ok, we rarely eat it but it's not a crime
We eat pasta with meatballs sauce just as a recycling recipe. We don't prepare that sauce specifically for pasta.
@@MarioMartinazzi scusami, ma in Puglia li prepariamo eccome gli spaghetti con polpette, non solo spaghetti, qualsiasi altro tipo di pasta, cavatelli, orecchiette ecc.. è sbagliato dettare leggi che non sono effettivamente vere per tutti
Great show!
OMGEEEEEEEEEE
ILoooooooooove you guys
I love Italian and sing Italian and cook Nona dishes
Thank you for teaching us all these rules!!!
We eat spaghetti with the meatballs tomato sauce and After we eat the meatballs! 😆
LOL, My wife is American, but I do all the cooking.. I can't stomach Italian food made American way!
Like wise i can't stomach also your sour spaghetti.We like and love the spaghetti with meatballs or ground beef,hotdog,ham with lots of cheese. Your italian spaghetti are boring ,just bland tomatoe taste.
@@enigma5014 De gustibus non est disputandum
@@enigma5014 if you eat only tomato sauce GRAZIE AR CAZZO but we have like a trillion recipe for pasta
@@enigma5014 Mate, I think you never eat actual Italian spaghetti xD Like, no one eats them only with tomato sauce, of course it's boring that way! If you'll ever come to Italy try out "spaghetti alla carbonara", "spaghetti alla amatriciana", "spaghetti al ragù", "spaghetti allo scoglio" etc. You're not going to regret it!
@@enigma5014 American got triggered
Haha love the video just stumbled on your channel 🤣 😄
Love this channel.
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That little wink at the end. "Mission accomplished."