What Did Anchiant Italians eat--plz im doing a report---?
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In 18th century England, macaroni was a synonym for perfection and excellence. That's why, for example, the feather in Yankee Doodle's cap was called "macaroni." In fact, the word "macaroni" means "dearest darlings" in Italian. \n The Chinese are on record as having eaten pasta as early as 5,000 B.C. \n In the 13th century, the Pope set quality standards for pasta. \n Tripolini or "little bows" were named to honor the Italian conquest of Tripoli in Libya.  \n There are more than 600 pasta shapes produced worldwide. \n Top-quality pasta is made from durum wheat. According to the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service, about 73 percent of the durum wheat grown in the U.S. is actually grown in North Dakota. American-grown durum wheat is considered among the best in the world and the pick of the crop is earmarked for domestic use ensuring a finished pasta product second to none in the world. \n According to Miss Manners (a.k.a. Judith Martin), a fork is the only utensil that may be used to eat spaghetti while anyone is looking. \n In Italian, fettucine means ribbons; stelline means little stars; and capelli d'angelo means angel's hair. \n Contrary to popular belief, Marco Polo did not discover pasta. The ancient Italians made pasta much like we do today. Although Marco Polo wrote about eating Chinese pasta at the court of Kubla Khan, he probably didn't introduce pasta to Italy. In fact, there's evidence suggesting the Etruscans made pasta as early as 400 B.C. The evidence lies in a bas-relief carving in a cave about 30 miles north of Rome. The carving depicts instruments for making pasta - a rolling-out table, pastry wheel and flour bin. And further proof that Marco Polo didn't "discover" pasta is found in the will of Ponzio Baestone, a Genoan soldier who requested "bariscella peina de macarone" - a small basket of macaroni. His will is dated 1279, 16 years before Marco Polo returned from China. \n Legend has it that noodles were first made by 13th century German bakers who fashioned dough into symbolic shapes, such as swords, birds and stars, which were baked and served as bread. \n All pasta is made by essentially the same equipment using the same technology. Also, in independent taste tests conducted by Consumer Reports, Cook's Illustrated and The Washington Post, U.S. pasta either was found superior to Italian imports or the judges were unable to discern a difference between them. \n  \nThomas Jefferson is credited with introducing macaroni to the United States. It seems that he fell in love with a certain dish he sampled in Naples while serving as the U.S. Ambassador to France. In fact, he promptly ordered crates of "maccaroni," along with a pasta-making machine, sent back to the States. \n The first American pasta factory was opened in Brooklyn, New York, in 1848, by a Frenchman named Antoine Zerega. Mr. Zerega managed the entire operation with just one horse in his basement to power the machinery. To dry his spaghetti, he placed strands of the pasta on the roof to dry in the sunshine. \n To cook one billion pounds of pasta, you would need 2,021,452,000 gallons of water - enough to fill nearly 75,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. \n  \n\nOne billion pounds of pasta is about 212,595 miles of 16-ounce packages of spaghetti stacked end-to-end -- enough to circle the earth's equator nearly nine times.\n \n Pasta is one of the foods kids most frequently eat at home, according to research conducted by Land O'Lakes. Seventeen percent eat spaghetti while 16 percent eat macaroni and cheese. Statistics from the NPD Group, a custom research group, show that kids eat 62 pounds of pasta each year, more than any other age group. \n Consumers enjoy pasta for dinner more than 40 times a year (approximately once a week), with dry pasta as their favorite form, according to Harry Balzer, NPD Group, Chicago, Ill. \n  \n\n\nChristop
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Ellis Island – Italians\n\nMy grandmother and grandfather arrived in Canada instead of Ellis Island, so I do not have any directly family stories to share.  However, I have seen several very informative History Channel programs on Ellis Island with include the Italian connection!\n\nNow, depending on what your interest is (history, family roots, class project, etc), there are several ways to research this topic:\n\n* Go to the local VFW or other locations where veterans might be located and ask them if anyone has Italian roots that may have family that came through Ellis Island.  If you mind some, and the odds are good that you will, you may be able to interview some people who parents or grandparents may have come through and even be willing to share pictures with you.\n\n* Today, Ellis Island is part of the USA National Parks Service (NPS).  They maintain a site with a lot of information about the Ellis Island Museum.  They have a lot of things available for the public who may want to know any number of things about the site.  There are also a number of pictures on their website that you cut and past into your own document.\n\n* It also turns out that there is an Ellis Island website dedicated to preserving the memory of this historic port of entry into the USA - http://www.ellisisland.org/\nYou will find personal and family stories at the site and can even search the historical records to identify when certain individuals came to the States.  I even looked up my mother’s madden name and found five individuals who came through Ellis who may have actually been distant relatives.\n\nThus with a little imagination and some research, you should be able to find a lot of information around the Italian immigration through Ellis Island.\n\nGood Luck.
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Seafood, mostly. You would think from their namje that they would eat clowns, b ut they don't. Clowns taste funny.
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dunno what this has to do with tennis lol but i love both! im addicted to italian food - the spicier the better... all'arrabiata babyyyyyyyyyyy :-)
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What did you eat? Was it real chunky or green looking like that puke in The Exorcist? lol  What a hoot.
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before the game pasta. nuts and fruit
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I would have to say Italian.
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I think this was mostly a little poem to help with Geography.  It's so old, though, that there's not much info out there and I found  several variations of it.\n\nHere's one:\n\nLong legged Italy\nKicked poor Sicily\nInto the middle of the\nMediterranean Sea\n\nAustria was Hungary\nTook a bit of Turkey\nDipped it in Greece\nFried it in Japan\nAnd ate it off China\n\nAnother reads:\n\n'Austria was Hungary, Very Very Hungary, Ate a bit of Turkey, Dipped in Greece. Long-legged Italy, kicked poor Sicily, Into the Mediterranean Sea.' \n\nYet another version:\n\nAustria was Hungary and ate a bit of Turkey,\nSlipped on Greece and broke a bit of China.\n\nAnd yet another version:\n\nGermany was Hungary, ate a bit of Turkey, on a bit of China, dipped in Greece. Greece was slippery, slipped into Italy, kicked a bit of Sicily right into the middle of the Mediterranean Sea!\n\nHope this helps!\n\nPolly
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all these muthafu@3ing snakes on this muthafu&%ing plane!!\n\n\nWhats with all these different types of cheese to pick from nowadays. Mozzarela, provalone, monterrey-jack, colby, colby-jack? I just want something for my sandwich, and they are giving me problems!!
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Wow.  Talk about asking a monolithic question.  Do all Europeans and Africans eat snails?
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not sure if this is what you were looking for but there are a lot of reports about different subjects in italian:\nwww.studenti.it
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So, I suppose they will give you a visa just because they love Italian food? Just kidding! Who doesn`t love Italy?
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C-rations, which were not nearly as tasty as MRE's!  Canned fruit cocktail was a favorite because it needed no prep.  Most entrees were designed to be heated first, this was difficult at times, so we ate them cold, grease and all.  Pork and beans were also a favorite because you could eat it either way without having to gag it down.  Beef patties were difficult because when you opened a can of this slop, the grease was all coagulated.  Man, if you didn't heat em up first, you sure didn't have need for stool softeners for the next week or so.\n\nThis was before easy opening cans, so everything had to be opened with your special GI can opener.  Most of us carried this silly little thing in the lapel of our utility shirt.  You didn't want to loose this thing or you wound up beating the can over rocks or stabbing it with your K-bar.  Boy, that was no fun!\n\nC-rations were good for barter.  The natives thought it was a feast.  Hell, they would trade some of their sought after wares for c-rations.  Machetes, watermelon, goose eggs, even San Miguel beer were items they would surrender for C-rations or mosquito nets.  Yes sir, those were the days!
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What about doing something italian or mexican? You can make a lasagna or some fancy pasta dish or maybe some burritos haha. Just a thought. You can have a tradition of making the kids clean everything up haha
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i had brussel sprouts with anchovies pizzA and pumpkin juice and for dessert i had gooseberry pudding..yikes!i bet i made you lose your appetite!!!
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The Irish were very poor with little to eat. Corned beef and cabbage was considered cheap food just thrown together to fill their stomachs. There's more to this of course, but it became a tradition to eat it on St. Patrick's Day.
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Italy! so much culture! So beautiful! Cute guys! Amazing food! What's not to like?