![]() It seems the Swiss were possibly the first to commercially produce the short hollow tubes in the nineteenth century. The industrial production of pasta started as early as the fifteenth century, and if we fast-forward to the nineteenth century, the inimitable Mrs Beeton in her ‘Book of Household Management’ suggested that to Neapolitans, macaroni was the ‘staff of life’. It contained the first recipe for mac ‘n’ cheese, although it’s believed to have been more like lasagne than the fantastic festival of fromage we know today. What we do know is that the word makerouns was used in English for the first time in a late 14th century recipe book. Another is that it comes from the Latin word maccare meaning to crush or pound. One theory is that the ancient Greeks who established the city of Neopolis – known today as Naples – created a dish made of barley flour to commemorate the dead called macaria. No-one is quite sure where the word macaroni comes from. ![]()
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