Countries and their ashamed history

Hooray for a cook. When I posted that some time ago I was shot down in pieces by people who had spag Bol in Italy…..in tourist restaurants.
Spaghetti is useless at picking up bolognese sauce.
That's the reason most Italians wouldn't have it (though no doubt some do). It is rumoured to have originated in Imola, so is theoretically an Italian dish, though I have yet to find it in a traditional Italian restaurant.
 
It's a subject the produces much debate in Italian culinary circles.

For many Italians it's an aberration to have spaghetti with your bolognese sauce. Tagliatelle, fettuccine and pappardelle are much more common and better accompaniments.
I stayed in Bologna recently and did one of those Airbnb cooking experiences with my lad to make Ragu with an ex chef and he laughed when I said I made it with spaghetti, already alluded to by others but it’s that the pasta is too thin for picking up the morels of meat.
 
I stayed in Bologna recently and did one of those Airbnb cooking experiences with my lad to make Ragu with an ex chef and he laughed when I said I made it with spaghetti, already alluded to by others but it’s that the pasta is too thin for picking up the morels of meat.
They put mushrooms in it?
 
Elizabeth David famous for writing on Italian food actually gave addresses where you could buy olive oil in London. (c.1951) Elsewhere you could only obtain it in tiny bottles at huge prices at the chemist! The Roux bros used to smuggle such stuff in.
As recently as the late 70s, the most common use for olive oil in the U.K. was to cure earache. As you say, you could only get it at the chemist. I can still picture the bottle we had in our medicine cabinet for donkey’s years.
 

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