Fettuccine Alfredo or fettuccine al
burro is a pasta dish made from fettuccine tossed with Parmesan
cheese and butter. As the cheese melts, it emulsifies the liquids to
form a smooth and rich sauce coating on the pasta. That's what the
history books would have you believe anyway..
The real story concerned a young
Italian Lad by the name of Fettuchini (Italian for weak chinned) who
owned a burro that he called Alfredo! Interestingly, old Alfredo was
a real uptight burro that would jump at the smallest sound. And so it
was one day, while Futtuchini was making normal spaghetti pasta, that he accidentally
dropped his spatula, which startled the burro who got all crazy,
jumped and knocked over a freshly made pile of regular spaghetti onto
the floor. In the confusion, he also ran over and stomped the noodles
flat. Then, as Fettuchini was beating the burro, some butter and cheese got spilled
right into the whole mess. Being poor, Fettuchini scraped it up as best he could
and ate it anyway! And a new recipe was born! The only problem being
that the historians got his name spelled wrong...
Alfredo the burro, as a side note, was
shot the next day and made into stew. A true story.
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