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Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American
Origins of your favorite ethnic cuisine.
I started writing Red Sauce to answer a basic question: where does it all come from. I was eating dinner with my wife at a classic Manhattan red sauce joint, probably drinking too much chianti, when we started talking about the origins of Italian American food. So different than contemporary food in Italy, I wanted to know who invented, where it came from, and why we think of it as Italian. Four years later, Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American was published.
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From the publisher: In Red Sauce, Ian MacAllen traces the evolution of traditional Italian-American cuisine, often referred to as “red sauce Italian,” from its origins in Italy to its transformation in America into a new, distinct cuisine.
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