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Polpettine are different than the Italian-American meatballs that you'll find over here. Much smaller, and one bite in with the pasta. American polpette are m
by SmellTheGlove 10y ago
Polpettine are different than the Italian-American meatballs that you'll find over here. Much smaller, and one bite in with the pasta. American polpette are more like polpette Napoletane (and for good reason, that's who brought them here) and quite often even larger than that. You have to cut them to eat them, even if it's just with a fork. Too big, in my opinion, to eat with pasta. I serve them as secondo.
- carlob 10y agoYou are also assuming that Italian cuisine didn't evolve in the past century. Even the most famous Italian dish: pizza margherita is not 150 years old. There are very common dishes nowadays, for example carpaccio, that pare post-ww2 inventions. Did you know that Quebecois French is closer to old French than proper French French? Can you safely say it isn't us who have evolved and Italo-Americans who have stayed the same?
- SmellTheGlove 10y agoNo, I think that both Italian and Italian-American cooking have evolved over that time. Italian-American cooking isn't a snapshot of early century southern Italy, and neither is a given Italian region a snapshot of its past. Both have moved forward independently. Both have changed a bit in my lifetime.