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Article: Kitchen Detective: It's not truly Italian, but it's mmmm good; Use fresh breadcrumbs, milk for moist meatballs in this Americanized dish
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 13, 2004
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Spaghetti and Meatballs is the quintessential Italian/American
dish although you won't find it in any self-respecting Italian
cookbook. The Italians do serve fried balls of meat but serve them
with a salad or perhaps vegetables, never simmered in tomato sauce
and dumped over a huge mound of spaghetti.
That being said, one would be hard pressed to find anyone who
doesn't have fond memories of this 'fusion' offering even though
purists might consider this nothing more than a prop for The
Godfather. For my part, I love it.
I don't love it, however, when the meatballs are dry and tough and
the sauce is bland and soupy. Even the Joy of Cooking mucks it up by
adding red wine and tomato paste to ...