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Did New York Invent Spaghetti?

That’s because spaghetti and meatballs is as Italian as pepperoni pizza—namely, not at all. The dish as we know it originated across the Atlantic Ocean in New York City, as new Italian immigrants suddenly found themselves neighbors with other Europeans in cramped tenements along Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Who first invented spaghetti? While some historians …

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