Talk:Italian cuisine/Catalogs

The only dishes I know of that are found throughout most of the peninsula are minestrone, pasta fagioli, and potato gnocchi. All others are regional specialties. And then there are the abominations the Brits and Americans have done to it (or should I say Italian immigrants trying to make money by catering to the atrocious tastes of their clientele) such as soggy garlic bread served with pasta. There is no such thing as spaghetti bolognese in Italy (I can hear both my grandmothers -- one from Molise and the other from Modena -- turning in their grave): spaghetti are from Naples and bolognese is, well, from Bologna. Spag bog is one of the aforementioned British abominations. Ragù bolognese is served with tagliatelle verdi or in lasagne verdi!!!! And there are no leeks in it!!! :-) Luigi Zanasi 23:14, 30 July 2007 (CDT)