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Which is the only cheese in lasagne verdi alla bolognese?
Answer: Parmigiano Reggiano
Why: The sheets owe their green to boiled spinach, 350 g of it for every 700 g of flour in the dough.
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Which part of the pig is guanciale cut from?
Answer: Cheek
Why: Pancetta, the usual stand-in when guanciale is missing, is cured pork belly rather than cheek.
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What were Neapolitans called before 'macaroni eaters'?
Answer: Leaf eaters
Why: Before the 1600s the macaroni eaters of Italy were the Sicilians, a nickname Naples only took over later.
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What grain gives orzo, the rice-shaped pasta, its name?
Answer: Barley
Why: In Italy, where orzo usually means the grain itself, the shape also goes by risoni, big grains of rice.
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What object gave fusilli their name?
Answer: Spindle
Why: Cooks once coiled each piece by wrapping a strip of dough around a spindle, the fuso of the name.
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Who called for pasta to be abolished in 1930?
Answer: The Futurists
Why: Their Manifesto of Futurist Cooking ran in the Turin newspaper Gazzetta del Popolo on 28 December 1930.
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