{"id":923,"date":"2021-11-11T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/?p=923"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:13:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:13:57","slug":"the-origin-of-national-spaghetti-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of National Spaghetti Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By: Shawn Ward<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Spaghetti Day was introduced into the United States through the travels of Thomas Jefferson, who brought it back from Naples, Italy in 1789.&nbsp;For those who don\u2019t know who&nbsp;Thomas Jefferson is,&nbsp;he is one of the&nbsp;authors&nbsp;of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president.&nbsp;Spaghetti was also brought&nbsp;over to the U.S. by&nbsp;Italian immigrants, where its popularity quickly spread. Spaghetti in Italian means thin string or twine.&nbsp;The chilly weather nights can&nbsp;make eating spaghetti&nbsp;the&nbsp;most&nbsp;comforting&nbsp;food&nbsp;over&nbsp;any other meal by far.&nbsp;It is a much-loved&nbsp;meal&nbsp;for&nbsp;all&nbsp;ages across the world,&nbsp;and&nbsp;a staple&nbsp;in&nbsp;Italian cuisine.&nbsp;As Italians immigrated to the US, they introduced their Italian dishes.&nbsp;Just as other immigrants shared their homelands&nbsp;cuisine, for example&nbsp;Germans shared&nbsp;sauerkraut and Irish shared&nbsp;Shepards pie.&nbsp;Spaghetti was served to American diners in the early 19th century. The earlier version did not include Basil or Oregano&nbsp;in&nbsp;it,&nbsp;but today most of the spaghetti dishes include them.&nbsp;There is evidence of this dish that goes back many years.&nbsp;Jerusalem\u2019s Talmud records the common consumption of boiled dough among Palestinians during AD 3 and 4.&nbsp;National Spaghetti Day&nbsp;is&nbsp;on&nbsp;January 4<sup>th<\/sup>, and&nbsp;offers an opportunity to pick&nbsp;ones&nbsp;favorite&nbsp;sauce and add it to that long, thin cylindrical pasta of Italian and Sicilian origin. Usually made from semolina flour, this pasta has been a worldwide favorite for ages and loved by millions.&nbsp;However,&nbsp;there are some&nbsp;who&nbsp;question&nbsp;the Italians being the creators of spaghetti.&nbsp;Some,&nbsp;however,&nbsp;are convinced Marco Polo&nbsp;brought&nbsp;it back from his epic voyage to China. In Italy, pasta was made from hard wheat and shaped into long strands. Which brings this ancient food much closer to modern-day spaghetti.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-18.png 800w, https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-18-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-18-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By: Shawn Ward&nbsp; National Spaghetti Day was introduced into the United States through the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}