SPAGHETTIS - Benedetto Cavalieri - 500G

Spaghetti, real spaghetti, exceptionally well-kept. What else can I tell you? Rather than telling you what you already know about spaghetti (!) ,Here are some anecdotes about spaghetti collected over the course of our reading: Spaghetti dates back to medieval times in Italy. HAS At that time, spaghetti was considered a luxury food and was reserved for the wealthy and noble. Their production was long and laborious, requiring intensive manual labor to stretch and shape the dough. However, legend has it that one day, a famous Italian chef named Pippo, frustrated by the time and effort required to prepare spaghetti, came up with the ingenious idea of using a sun-drying technique to speed up the process. Instead of drying the spaghetti indoors for days, he spread it out on clean sheets outside in the warm Italian sun. This quick drying method not only reduced the preparation time of the spaghetti, but also helped to retain its freshness and authentic texture. The new spaghetti-making technique quickly spread throughout Italy, making pasta more accessible to everyone. A fun fact about spaghetti is "Flying Spaghetti Day." This fictional day is celebrated on April 1st in some parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. The origins of this celebration date back to 1950, when the British BBC broadcast a fictional report describing a spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. The report, broadcast on the Panorama programme, showed footage of people picking spaghetti from trees, claiming it was the result of a bumper harvest season due to favourable weather conditions. Many viewers believed the report and contacted the BBC to ask how to grow their own spaghetti. The BBC humorously responded that to grow spaghetti, all you had to do was place a stalk of spaghetti in a can of tomato sauce and wait. This well-orchestrated prank was one of the first great media hoaxes and has become legendary in television history.Since then, April 1st is sometimes celebrated as "Flying Spaghetti Day." During World War I, while Italian pilots were on missions, they sometimes used spaghetti to determine if their engine was hot enough to start. How ? They simply took a strand of raw spaghetti and placed it near the running engine. If the spaghetti started to bubble and cook, it was a sign that the engine was ready to run at full power!!! Spaghetti was celebrated in the small Italian town of Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples. In 2013, the city organized an extraordinary event called "La Notte dei Maccheroni Giganti" (The Night of the Giant Macaroni). During this event, locals prepared a huge portion of spaghetti, weighing nearly 1.5 tons and measuring over 3 kilometers in length, making it the longest spaghetti in the world. They used a large pot specially designed for the occasion, which was heated by a giant wood fire. Once cooked, the spaghetti was served on giant plates and distributed free of charge to residents and visitors of the town. The event attracted thousands of people from all over Italy to participate in this unique celebration of Italian gastronomy.Origin: Italy