{"id":4311,"date":"2023-03-14T17:50:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2023\/03\/14\/we-owe-our-fork-to-spaghetti\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:50:39","slug":"we-owe-our-fork-to-spaghetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2023\/03\/14\/we-owe-our-fork-to-spaghetti\/","title":{"rendered":"We owe our fork to Spaghetti!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]Spaghetti was a great invention (no, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2021\/03\/15\/marco-polo-gli-spaghetti-e-la-bufala\/\">Marco Polo has nothing to do with it!<\/a>).<br \/>\nOn the other hand, there&#8217;s an invention that we owe to spaghetti: the four-tines fork.<\/p>\n<p>AD 1770: <em>Ferdinand I<\/em>, King of Naples and Sicily, was a young man who almost by chance happened to sit on the throne.<\/p>\n<p>So much by chance he hadn&#8217;t even received a royal education like his colleagues from other European noble houses.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, he had fraternized with the more popular classes of Naples so much that he had also captured their culinary tastes. In short, <strong>Ferdinand I loved spaghetti<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>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 \u200b\u200beating those strings of pasta with his bare hands <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2022\/07\/22\/il-mangiamaccheroni\/\">like the commoners did<\/a>. And trying to eat them with those proto-forks of the time was quite burdensome.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the young Ferdinand asked his chamberlain, <em>Gennaro Spadaccini,<\/em> to come up with an idea.<\/p>\n<p>The latter did not disappoint his gluttoneous King: the<strong> fork with four tines<\/strong> was born.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;cleaned&#8221; of food without dirtying the prestigious silk clothes.<\/p>\n<p>So, next time you stop to admire a fork, think spaghetti.<br \/>\nAnd, consequently, also think that I sell excellent <strong>Inox Bim<\/strong> equipment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/cooking\/?lang=en\">cook them<\/a>![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]Spaghetti was a great invention (no, Marco Polo has nothing to do with it!). On the other hand,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}