>Goomba38 writes"
>
>Wayne wrote:
>>
>> I can tell you that earlier this week I spent the better part of a day
>> making my usual (and usually wonderful) meat sauce. When it was near time
>> for dinner I discovered I was completely out of spaghetti. I cooked a pot
>> of elbow macaroni instead, stirred in some of the sauce, and topped each
>> plate of pasta with more sauce. Didn't miss the spaghetti a bit.
>>
>That is one shape my father never allowed into the house. He
>truly skeeved that shape and said it was too American.

Hmmm, perhaps he was ashamed of his roots... the elbow configuration is as
Italian a pasta shape as it gets.... pasta extrusion was invented by an Italian
(its extrusion being the *only* Italian claim to the noodle). The very first
rendition of a tubular shape was curved, the "elbow". And in fact much
experimentation over a long time went into developing extrusion methods which
eliminated that curve so that straight tubes could become possible... the
straight line being the most unnatural configuration in the universe. The
Italians are credited with an amazing afinity for developing pasta shapes but
they did not by any stretch of the imagnation invent the noodle.

http://www.maldari.com/index.htm


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