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Macaroni
mac-uh-ROW-nee
("Dumpling") - is a corruption of the Italian word maccherone and
its plural maccheroni. Macaroni is a highly versatile shape that
can be topped with any sauce, baked, or put in soups, salads and stir-fry
dishes. This tubular Italian pasta used to be made by wrapping pasta dough
around knitting needles. Today macaroni is typically machine-made dry commercial
pasta. Technically macaroni
must not contain eggs.
Thomas Jefferson is credited with
bringing the first macaroni machine to the United States in 1789, when he
returned home after serving as ambassador to France.
In the United States and Canada,
the name macaroni is customarily given to a specific shape of
pasta: small pasta tubes cut into short pieces.
Elbow macaroni is curved,
and is traditionally used to make macaroni and cheese.
                          
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