{"id":421879,"date":"2022-03-26T15:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-italian-food-like-pizza-and-pasta-became-americanized\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T12:05:25","slug":"how-italian-food-like-pizza-and-pasta-became-americanized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-italian-food-like-pizza-and-pasta-became-americanized\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Italian food like pizza and pasta became Americanized"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a416c8e15190\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a416c8e15190\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-italian-food-like-pizza-and-pasta-became-americanized\/#%E2%80%9CHow_Italian_food_like_pizza_and_pasta_became_Americanized%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;How Italian food like pizza and pasta became Americanized&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHow_Italian_food_like_pizza_and_pasta_became_Americanized%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;How Italian food like pizza and pasta became Americanized&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The inspiration for Ian MacAllen\u2019s book came to him one night several years ago over a plate of veal Parmesan at the now-closed West Village restaurant Trattoria Spaghetto. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew they would look strangely at you if you ordered that in Italy,\u201d says MacAllen, who has Italian ancestry. \u201cBut [veal Parmesan] was such a different food from what my wife and I had had when we were in Italy. I started Googling things about the origins of Italian-American food, and it didn\u2019t have any good answers. From there, it spiraled out of control. Before I knew it, I was writing a book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRed Sauce: How Italian Food Became American\u201d (Rowman &amp; Littlefield) is the fascinating result, a well-researched look into how the cuisine of Italian immigrants made its way into the American mainstream, with pasta and pizza now synonymous with \u201cAmerican food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Italian immigrants made their way to American shores, it was often the men who went ahead of their families alone. When they arrived, they suddenly found they were able to afford an entirely different standard of living.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mulberry-street.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mulberry Street, the home of Little Italy, in 1900, where many Italians first came to New York and discovered exciting new foods to add to their cuisine.\" class=\"wp-image-21628892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mulberry-street.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mulberry-street.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mulberry-street.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mulberry Street, the home of Little Italy, in 1900, where many Italians first came to New York and discovered exciting new foods to add to their cuisine.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a>drumimages\/Detroit Photographic Company<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey had money to spend. Italy at that time taxed food you would grow in your own garden,\u201d says \u00a0MacAllen. \u201cThey would come to New York and suddenly be able to buy meat all the time \u2014 they had access to all these foods they hadn\u2019t eaten before. Then the families came over, and food became a way of celebrating their family\u2019s reunification.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"805\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/chef-boy-ar-dee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=805\" alt=\"The popularity of Chef Boy-Ar-Dee's red sauce led to a canned food business \u2014 and later a contract supplying food to Allied troops during World War II. \" class=\"wp-image-21628929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/chef-boy-ar-dee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1610 1610w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/chef-boy-ar-dee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1207 1207w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/chef-boy-ar-dee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=805 805w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/chef-boy-ar-dee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=402 402w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/chef-boy-ar-dee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\"\/><figcaption>The popularity of Chef Boy-Ar-Dee\u2019s red sauce led to a canned food business \u2014 and later a contract supplying food to Allied troops during World War II. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One chapter discusses master businessman Ettore Boiardi, best known as Chef Boy-Ar-Dee of Spaghettios fame. Boiardi\u2019s Cleveland restaurant Il Giardino d\u2019Italia was so popular in the 1920s that customers would show up with empty milk jugs, begging for his red sauce. That eventually led to a canned food business \u2014 and later a contract supplying Allied troops during World War II. Returning American troops now had a fondness for the canned spaghetti, seeking it out in the new Italian-American restaurants that had opened up across the country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ettore-boiardi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682\" alt=\"Chef and businessman Ettore Boiardi, also known as Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, popularized Italian food in the US.\" class=\"wp-image-21628976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ettore-boiardi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ettore-boiardi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ettore-boiardi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ettore-boiardi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>Chef and businessman Ettore Boiardi, also known as Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, popularized Italian food in the US.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn the ladies magazines of the time there were explainers about how to pronounce the words \u2018lasagna\u2019 and \u2018pizza,\u2019\u201d says MacAllen.\u00a0\u201cSpaghetti and meatballs and tomato sauce were one of the few ethnic foods to end up in the military cookbook.\u201d (The foods also got a boost in popularity in the 1920s, when a publication called The New Macaroni Journal published two of silent film star Rudolph Valentino\u2019s favorite recipes; if a celebrity liked it, it must be good.)\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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