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Article: Meatballs on top of spaghetti is an Italian-American classic that brings people together
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 9, 2008
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MEDFORD - In the kitchen of Nappi Meats & Groceries, Anna Nappi
is simmering a pot of tomato sauce with meatballs about the size of
clementines. Two of these juicy rounds go with a serving of
spaghetti and plenty of extra sauce. For the meatballs, Anna's
husband, Giuseppe, who runs the butcher part of their shop, ground
beef chuck and sirloin with a little pork butt. Anna grated stale
Italian bread for the mixture, and she also added romano cheese and
some dried mint, a secret ingredient her mother used. When a
customer comes into the shop, Anna tosses cooked spaghetti with
sauce, tops it with two succulent meatballs, and serves it forth.
But this isn't the way her family ate spaghetti and ...