标题: Italians Don't Eat Pasta as They Used to [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 10-12-2013 09:09 标题: Italians Don't Eat Pasta as They Used to 本帖最后由 choi 于 10-12-2013 09:22 编辑
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(a) All About Pasta. University of Illinois Extension
web.extension.illinois.edu/regions/srd/nutrition/Pasta_Lesson/All_About_Pasta_PP.ppt
(i) "[it is] Likely that noodles were introduced into Italy by the Arabs when they conquered Sicily in the early middle ages."
Sicily http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily
(section 3.4 Arab Sicily (827–1091))
(ii) "The Spanish explorer Cortez brought tomatoes back to Europe from Mexico in 1519."
(A) Cortes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortes
(Corte, Cortes and Cortez are names of Latin origin, meaning "court(s)" or "cut(s)")
(B) Hernán Cortés http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s
(1485-1547)
(iii) "He [Thomas Jefferson] served as ambassador to France and upon his return to America in 1789 he brought back the first 'macaroni' maker along with crates of macaroni. He even designed a pasta maker and had it built in Brooklyn, New York!"
(iv) "'Macaroni’s' called the simple American colonists 'Yankee Doodles.' Yankee was the mispronunciation of the word 'English' in Dutch and 'doodle' came from a German word meaning 'simpleton.' The song 'Yankee Doodle' was used by the British to ridicule the American colonists, who adopted it in self-defense."
(b) "Barilla SpA, the world's largest pasta maker"
Barilla Group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barilla_Group
(Founded 1877; Founder Pietro Barilla; Headquarters Parma, Italy)
(c) durum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durum
(Triticum durum; the hardest of all wheats; section 2 Use: dry and fresh (homemade; Italian: pasta fresca); "The cultivation of durum generates greater yield than other wheats in areas of low precipitation (3–5 dm). Good yields can be obtained by irrigation, but this is rarely done")
(d) Sophia Loren: "Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti."
Spaghetti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti
(Spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning "thin string" or "twine")
(e) "Gabriele Riccardi, professor of human nutrition at University Federico II in Naples"
(i) The Italian surname Riccardi means son of Riccardo. The latter may be a Italian surname of its own right (as well as a given name), being Italian form of Richard.
(Regarding the English ecconomist, David Ricardo (1772-1823; born in London from a Sephardic Jewish family of Portuguese origin). Ricardo is the Spanish form of Richard.)
(ii) University of Naples Federico II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Naples_Federico_II
(founded in 1224; named after its founder Frederick II [emperor of Holy Roman Empire])
(f) "the Cucchiaio d’Argento cookbook, Italy’s version of Betty Crocker"
(i) Il cucchiaio d'argento http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_cucchiaio_d'argento
(The Silver Spoon in English; originally published in 1950)
Italian-English dictionary:
(A) cucchiaio (noun masculine): "spoon"
(B) argento (noun masculine): "silver"
(ii) Betty Crocker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Crocker
(The name was first developed by the Washburn Crosby Company in 1921; Betty Crockerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Crocker; In 2005, the 10th edition of the Betty Crocker cookbook was published)
(g) Per capita consumption of Pasta is 26 kg (not pounds) annually for Italian, followed by Venezuelans' 13. Americans: 8.9.