For more than 30 years, Charles Zsarnay, a veteran of the United States Army, has provided financial planning assistance to businesses and people in Ohio. Away from the office, Charles Zsarnay enjoys honing his culinary skills with classic dishes such as spaghetti.
When people think of Italian food, spaghetti is often the first dish to come to mind. Yet, in Italy, one can only find the famous pasta dish in Americanized restaurants. Spaghetti still holds strong ties to Italian culture, however.
Meatballs, for instance, constitute a full meal by themselves in Italy, and their ingredients differ from those typically eaten in the US. Between 1880 and 1920 millions of Italians immigrated to the United States, where they adapted old recipes, including meatballs, to new resources. An increase in income also allowed for more experimenting in the kitchen.
Given the abundance of canned tomatoes, Italian Americans soon started combining meatball recipes with improvised marinara sauces and adding the pasta component. Thus, while spaghetti owes much of its inspiration to the Italians, its geographical origin is more American than anything.
