People think that Italians eat fish and chips all the time.

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PASTA

If you ask people: ‘what do Italians eat?’ - they answer: ‘pasta and pizza’. And I bet that most people in the world have eaten pasta, if not pizza! Pasta is very versatile – you can add meat, fish, vegetables or cheese and you can serve it with any sauce you want. A popular sauce in the UK is Bolognese, which is a meat and tomato sauce. We usually have this sauce with spaghetti. In fact, many British people say that spaghetti Bolognese, which we shorten to ‘spag bol’ is their favourite dish. Pasta is made from wheat and it comes in many different shapes. There are about three hundred and fifty shapes of pasta, and even more names for them! For example, in English ‘farfalle’ pasta is called butterfly pasta and also bow tie pasta. Did you know that pasta can be organised into different groups? There is long pasta, which includes spaghetti; tubes, which includes penne; pasta for soup, which includes alfabetti; stuffed, which includes ravioli and then there is special pasta which can be any shape. Special pasta includes fusilli. In Italy, pasta can be served as a starter, or a main meal. It is also an ingredient in that famous Italian soup, minestrone, which means ‘big soup’. Pasta is a versatile, nutritious and quick to prepare meal. You can add parmesan cheese if you like it. Perfetto! Buon appetito!

TRUE OR FALSE? CORRECT THE SENTENCES WHICH ARE FALSE:

1. __ People think that Italians eat fish and chips all the time.

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