Italiano
Spaghetti was a great invention (no, Marco Polo has nothing to do with it!).
On the other hand, there’s an invention that we owe to spaghetti: the four-tines fork.
AD 1770: Ferdinand I, King of Naples and Sicily, was a young man who almost by chance happened to sit on the throne.
So much by chance he hadn’t even received a royal education like his colleagues from other European noble houses.
Indeed, he had fraternized with the more popular classes of Naples so much that he had also captured their culinary tastes. In short, Ferdinand I loved spaghetti…
But, spaghetti was not a common food among the palaces of the aristocracy at the time. A nobleman turned pale at the mere idea of eating those strings of pasta with his bare hands like the commoners did. And trying to eat them with those proto-forks of the time was quite burdensome.
Thus, the young Ferdinand asked his chamberlain, Gennaro Spadaccini, to come up with an idea.
The latter did not disappoint his gluttoneous King: the fork with four tines was born.
Small and easy to handle, it could fork pieces of meat as well as wrap spaghetti, and it was of the right width to be inserted into the mouth and “cleaned” of food without dirtying the prestigious silk clothes.
So, next time you stop to admire a fork, think spaghetti.
And, consequently, also think that I sell excellent Inox Bim equipment to cook them!
