Did you know Fetachccini Alfredo is actually named after a real guy? And join me as we travel back to Rome in 1914 where a young chef named Alfredo Dleio was struggling to feed his wife after childbirth. Apparently, she was complaining that Roman food was just too complicated. So, he decided to make a simple dish of fresh fetuccini tossed with butter and good parabo reanu tempt her appetite. She fell in love with the dish. He put it on his menu and the rest is history. The key to a true fetuccini alfredo was using lots of butter and cheese which emulsified with the pasta water to form a creamy sauce without cream. In the 1920s, Italy started seeing their first American tourists which included Hollywood actors Mary Pigford and Douglas Fairbanks who fell in love with it during their honeymoon in Rome. These Hollywood starlets made it all the rage in the US and there the dish evolved adding heavy cream garlic, more butter, very American. Toss some shrimp, toss some chicken on there. The Italian dish today remains simple and light.
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I make it like the Italians! A man who loved his wife & created a great pasta dish ❤ Many dishes are WONDERFUL with simple ingredients & cooking them simple ❤
Damn, bro was named fettuccine
Worst pasta plating ever
The American version is better in every way. We're here for a short time not a long time
Looks delicious
Thank You and God bless you
Alfredo sauce isn’t actually a true emulsification but rather the starch in the pasta water creating gelatinization.
Cacio e pepe too complicated, ok
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Fettuccine.
The one meal massacred by anyone who claims they could cook but clearly can't.
Mostly because they use the jar sauce, which is vomit.
So this is just Fred's pasta
WITHOUT CREAM, say it louder for the idiots in the back
And here I commented because apparently some "Italian" people are laughing and asking "WHO THE FACK IS ALFREDO.
Like what, that's one of your native dish and you don't even know? What's more is you laugh at non Italian people when they order Fettuccine Alfredo. 😂😂😂😂
Another good recipe ruined by Americans.
So I’ve been making the sauce wrong this whole time?
You are one the few who makes it the original way. Bravo 👏