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The first spaghetti Carbonara were made by using bacon rather than the guanciale. It’s a must for the Italian cuisine, maybe it was born in the Apennines’ mines around 1800 and it became famous all over the world after World War II when it was difficult to find the ingredients and they were mainly offered by the American troops especially the powdered eggs and the bacon. Spaghetti used to be cooked that way and thanks to the American allies this recipe took wind.

Potatoes were considered the devil’s food. They arrived to Spain around 1573, they had strange irregular shapes, they were not mentioned in the holy writings, they were considered the bringers of leprosy and they were considered the devil’s food too. The benefits of this tuber were acknowledged in the 19th century even because they discovered that each acre provided more calories.

The Gorgonzola cheese was one of the dishes of the Titanic’s menu. It’s proved that one of the most famous Italian cheese was on the menu of the first class of the famous liner that sank on its first journey in 1912. The evidence is a copy of the menu that survived the shipwreck.

Eating something with different types of cutlery changes the way you taste the food. According to a group of researchers from Oxford University, if you eat yogurt with a plastic spoon you’ll feel a better taste. If the spoon is white the white yogurt will be sweeter than the pink one, if the spoon is black the pink yogurt will taste sweeter. Instead if you eat cheese by using the knife it will taste less salty rather than eating it by using a toothpick, a fork or a spoon.

The “Fettuccine Alfredo” were really born in Italy. This dish was particularly famous in America as a typical Italian dish but it’s not so famous in our country where it is almost unknown. It was invented by chef Alfredo di Lelio, a restaurant owner from Rome who invented this dish made of fettuccine (a type of tagliatelle), parmesan cheese and butter as an invigorating dish for her wife after their son was born. This dish became very famous mainly in the chef’s restaurant thanks to the tourists who “exported” it overseas.

What about a spoon instead of a bottle cap? Fake news! How often did you do it or were you suggested to do it? Well, you can stop now since it’s useless. There’s no evidence that the air stops when it touches the metal, indeed the air is not afraid of your cutlery and it can turn around it without any problems.