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"WE EAT TOMATO WITH PASTA, NOT PASTA WITH TOMATO." Elsewhere in the world, pasta al pomodoro is seen as Italy’s “symbol of national identity par excellence,” an Italian historian writes in “A Short History of Spaghetti With Tomato Sauce”, despite its origins as a regional specialty predating Italian unification by several decades, a creation of Naples. The dish was brought to the United States by Neapolitan immigrants in the late 19th century before it was fully embraced by their compatriots in the Italian north. How a ‘Strange,’ ‘Evil’ Fruit Came to Define Italy’s Cuisine | T Magazine