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Top chef reveals you should NEVER serve meatballs with spaghetti if you want to cook authentic Italian cuisine (and it's actually an AMERICAN dish)
Italian chef Silvia Baldini revealed: 'Of course meatballs don't go on spaghetti'
Dish was actually an American invention and won't be found on menus in Italy
Italians serve their meatballs deep-fried as a snack or without pasta in a sauce
By Imogen Blake For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 10:33 BST, 31 May 2017 | UPDATED: 10:34 BST, 31 May 2017

Italian food is one of the most popular cuisines in the world, but some of the most well-known dishes may not be as authentic as we think.

Italian-American chef Silvia Baldini has revealed that one of the country's most famous dishes, spaghetti with meatballs, does not actually hail from Italy at all.

And the Connecticut chef, who won a series of Food Network's Chopped, says you should never serve the two together if you want to make authentic Italian food.


American as apple pie: An Italian chef has revealed that meatballs and spaghetti should never be united if you want to serve authentic Italian food

Baldini, who trained in Michelin starred kitchens, made the revelation in an interview with the The Independent about the mistakes many people make when it comes to cooking Italian food.

As well as never having pasta as a side dish for meat, such as chicken with pasta, he said: 'And of course meatballs don’t go on spaghetti.'

This dish is well known the world over, and was perhaps most famously featured on Disney's 1955 film Lady and the Tramp.
But it doesn't appear on Italian menus, according to Baldini, except at restaurants which include it for tourists.


The dish was famously featured as a typical Italian meal in this iconic scene from Disney's Lady and the Tramp (1955) - the song 'Bella Notte' was played in the background to emphasise the Italian connection
The dish is in fact an American invention, created by Italian-American immigrants.

However it is thought to have been inspired by Italian 'polpette' - small meatballs made from ground beef or veal.
These can be served in a way more familiar with UK and US diners, in tomato sauce, but always as a main dish and never with pasta. It's most commonly found in the south of Italy.

But the most common way of eating polpette in Italy is to eat them deep fried, much like croquettes, as a starter or snack without any sauce.

There are bigger meatballs in Italy, known as polpettone, and these are served in a rich tomato sauce as a main dish.
Italians are said to often use the leftover meat as a sandwich filling.
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[MissMischief]

Right on. No one eats that in Italy - it's pretty damn gross. Just like chicken Parmesan, garlic bread, fettuccine Alfredo, Italian salad dressing, spaghetti Bolognese, macaroni and cheese (yuck - nothing worse than overcooked, mushy pasta, drenched in a sea of cream and cheese) and all that crap that gets served in America.

[frankhammer]

Damn. My mind is blown. This means I've never tasted Italian food. You Americans, destroying everything, everywhere for everybody!

[SardiniaAtlantis]

Lmao it doesn't take a top chef to know this just ask literally any Italian alive. We eat spaghetti. We eat meatballs. But then together isn't a thing, meatballs are good by themselves. At most Calabrese people like to make tiny ones to put in a type of lasagna they call Sagne chine but that's a different thing.

[SardiniaAtlantis]

Right on. No one eats that in Italy - it's pretty damn gross. Just like chicken Parmesan, garlic bread, fettuccine Alfredo, Italian salad dressing, spaghetti Bolognese, macaroni and cheese (yuck - nothing worse than overcooked, mushy pasta, drenched in a sea of cream and cheese) and all that crap that gets served in America.

Schifezza totale. The worst thing is really all the short cuts and forozen/additives and not even salting the pasta water or melding it to what its going with they just slap crap on top of mushy unsalted pasta. The sad thing is Italian food is not rocket science its one of the most simple things. In all true beauty there is simplicity it's hard to fuck up if you know what you're doing but America has the thought process that says "If a little bit of cheese is good then a bunch of cheese is freat!!! If a little bit of pepper is good then MORE PEPPER!!!" "Why make it fresh when you can have it pre made?!"

A proposito se qualcuno mi vuole offrire salsa di "Alfredo" io lo spacco in culo! Non so chi sarebbe sto deficiente Alfredo ma non ho bisogno della sua "salsa speciale".

[frankhammer]

There are no Italians here in NZ or at least so few, that I'll never meet one. Sadly, everything listed in MM's post has been portrayed as Italian cuisine and still is today.

Lmao it doesn't take a top chef to know this just ask literally any Italian alive. We eat spaghetti. We eat meatballs. But then together isn't a thing, meatballs are good by themselves. At most Calabrese people like to make tiny ones to put in a type of lasagna they call Sagne chine but that's a different thing.

[crazyladybutterfly]

how are you supposed to eat meatballs with freaking spaghetti?

[Dandelion]

Italians have the misfortune of having their culinary traditions messed with in unsavoury ways.

[SardiniaAtlantis]

There are no Italians here in NZ or at least so few, that I'll never meet one. Sadly, everything listed in MM's post has been portrayed as Italian cuisine and still is today.

The other crap is Carbonara with creme in it. Carbonara is simple pancetta , egg, cheese, pepper that's it. Toast garlic in the oil first then cook the pancetta in fine but creme added it's not carbonara anymore. Other things are Cesar salad that was invented by an Italian Mexican in Mexico so not Italian actually but it's not a bad dish. Also the tomato sauce is often way too much just like the cheese and also way too sweet to an hnpleasant degree. Btw this thing of calling tomato sauce "marinara" it's nonsense it's 'sugo' or if your from Naples 'pummarol' but marinara is a specific type like arrabbiata is.

[Oneeye]

This is a travesty. Keep pasta and meat and sauce segregated.