{"id":3100,"date":"2015-11-03T09:41:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rollingrrrs.wordpress.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-11-12T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:21:52","slug":"the-truth-behind-alfredo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/2015\/11\/03\/the-truth-behind-alfredo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth behind Alfredo \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The real Italian Fettuccine alla Alfredo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alfredo Sauce, fettuccine Alfredo, and everything that follows or precedes the word Alfredo are all things that Italians don\u2019t even know. So why is it such a huge deal here in the States?!<\/p>\n

Well, let\u2019s start with a bit of history: 1914 Rome, Alfredo Di Lelio used to make his typical \u201cfettucine\u201d, called by himself \u201cbionde\u201d \u2013 blondes, because of the color of the cooked and served meal. They were more butterish and cheesy (of course Parmesan<\/strong> cheesy) than the usual \u201cfettuccine al burro\u201d because, as my beloved queen Sonia says in her Giallo Zafferano<\/a>,\u00a0his wife lost appetite during labor so he had to come up with something that she\u00a0would have eaten, and it worked. She, then, asked Alfredo to put this recipe on the menu and that made him so famous because few years later in 1920 a just married couple who were spending their honeymoon in Rome, decided to go to see what was that kind of pasta everybody was talking about. Mary Pickford e Douglas Fairbanks, the famous Hollywood actors, then, were so impressed by the \u201cbionde\u201d that gave Alfredo as present a pair of golden silverware. From that moment onward, once the couple was back in LA, everybody knew about this extraordinary recipe.<\/p>\n

In Italy or better in Rome, Alfredo grew famous and famous creating also a real Alfredo\u2019s Dynasty (Alfredo, Alfredo II and Alfredo III) but actually nowadays if you\u2019re not from Rome, you probably never heard of \u201cBionde\u201d or \u201cFettuccicne alla Alfredo\u201d. Most of Alfredo\u2019s clients are \u2013 not shocking at all \u2013 Americans. Over the years, the recipe\u2019s been shaped into an Americanized version of what it was at the beginning.<\/p>\n

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