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Funny how the food of the poor in Italy is celebrated as a great dish in the USA. In Italy you can't even order Alfredo dishes in restaurants as most of people don't even know what it is.
Just for information as we are talking about this dish, the Alfredo sauce as we know it today is based on the very simple "spaghetti al burro" dish (spaghetti or other pasta with butter and parmesn cheese). Pasta al burro (if anyone here knows spanish don't get all excited, I know "burro" in spanish is a "donkey", but in Italian it means "butter") is the classic dish of the low income families especially a few decades ago.
Exported in the USA, this "Alfredo" thing evoluted and the recipe staretd to include parsley, garlic, heavy cream, even milk etc..
So, just remember if you take a trip to Italy that "pasta Alfredo" will only get you a stare by the waiter as this dish is as Italian as Olive Garden...
Funny how the food of the poor in Italy is celebrated as a great dish in the USA. In Italy you can't even order Alfredo dishes in restaurants as most of people don't even know what it is.
Just for information as we are talking about this dish, the Alfredo sauce as we know it today is based on the very simple "spaghetti al burro" dish (spaghetti or other pasta with butter and parmesn cheese). Pasta al burro (if anyone here knows spanish don't get all excited, I know "burro" in spanish is a "donkey", but in Italian it means "butter") is the classic dish of the low income families especially a few decades ago.
Exported in the USA, this "Alfredo" thing evoluted and the recipe staretd to include parsley, garlic, heavy cream, even milk etc..
So, just remember if you take a trip to Italy that "pasta Alfredo" will only get you a stare by the waiter as this dish is as Italian as Olive Garden...
The dish originated in a Roman restaurant and became popular with American tourists.
The dish originated in a Roman restaurant and became popular with American tourists.
Yes I know but that was in 1913/1914. And Alfredo I think was trying to create something "less boring" for the pregnant wife.
My point is how this dish that has very simple and humble origins has changed into something more noble in the USA, with the addition of a few ingredients here and there.
Funny how the food of the poor in Italy is celebrated as a great dish in the USA.
I actually see more and more restaurants going away from the word "alfredo" and using "Parmesan cream sauce" instead.
In America we Americanize anything such as pizza and Chinese food.
FYI, Alfredo di Lelio, created what Fettuccine alfredo as a dish, and never referred to the sauce as "alfredo sauce". The sauce has been around for what, 100s of years? It only became popularized in america while in the 1920's two movie stars had their honeymoon in Rome and ate at Alfredo's restaurant...They got his recipe and had it made for there other movie star friends.
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