ccc@bu-cs.UUCP (Cameron Carson) (08/28/85)
>Subject: Re: Pesto Recipe Wanted >Spoon it over your favorite kind of hot cooked >pasta (my italian friends who gave me the recipe like rigatoni since the >pesto kind of works its way inside). An observation: Growing up in the western US, I had a very narrow concept of pasta. Leaving egg-noodle-type pastas aside, the only pasta that got much airplay, so to speak, was spaghetti, with an occasional lasagna thrown in. Then I spent nearly two years living in Italy, and the only people I saw eating spaghetti were americans; only one (1) time did I ever see spaghetti prepared as a first course in an italian home. The standard pasta was 'penne rigate' or what I buy here as one type or another of rigatoni/mostaccioli/ziti. So, could someone with more experience answer this question: Is spaghetti-eating more common in other regions of Italy (I spent all my time in Puglia and Sicily)[no Sicily flames]? A pasta-related episode: A native vistor to the largely american office I worked in became quite nauseous when he saw us eating a kind of macaroni salad. He found the thought of eating cold pasta with mayonnaise to be quite disgusting. Needless to say, he refused all offers to try some. -- Cameron C. Carson Distributed Systems Group Boston University ACC UUCP: ...!harvard!bu-cs!ccc ARPA: ccc%bu-cs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
susan@umcp-cs.UUCP (Susan McCandless) (08/29/85)
That is interesting, my step father who is Italian, and lived in New York for a good part of his life, refuses to have anything to do with pasta salads.