Tuesday, July 15, 2025

my pasta might seem italian, but it's actually very native american. call it a spaghetti western pasta. where's my morricone?

american origin items:
tomato, red pepper, paprika, hot sauce, cayenne pepper, pineapple, avocado, sunflower seeds, caesar dressing***, genoa salami*, nutritional yeast, canola oil

italian/greek origin items
pasta, thyme, oregano, basil, olive oil, brocolli, genoa salami*, beet root**, caesar dressing***

south asian origin items
lime, garlic, carrot, cumin, hemp seeds, black pepper

scandinavian origin items:
dill

british origin items
marble (cheddar) cheese

* genoa salami was invented by italian-american immigrants, and isn't exactly italian 
** it was the romans that first started eating beet root rather than beet greens (chards), which were eaten by greeks and egyptians.
*** caesar dressing was invented by an italian-mexican immigrant