Where did spaghetti and meat balls originate?
This is an interesting question. It depends on if you are wondering who made the first spaghetti and meatball “recipe” or the origin of spaghetti and the origin of the meatball. Here is some interesting meatball history. http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/food_intro… Spaghetti! Who doesn’t love it? But where did this delicious concoction come from, and how did it get to our plate? We’ve probably all heard that Marco Polo brought spaghetti to Europe from the Far East in the late 13th century. While it’s true that he probably encountered it there — or at least a type of long noodle made from either rice flour or hard wheat flour — pasta had existed in Europe for centuries. In fact, a fourth century B.C. Etruscan tomb has a bas-relief carving of a group of natives making what appears to be pasta. Pasta in Italy is a long tradition! Pasta certainly existed in places other than Italy, however. The Chinese h
