{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-spaghetti-with-tomato-sauce-booksalert","title":"A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce","description":"\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eAccording to celebrated culinary historian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eMassimo Montanari\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e, this is just a myth: by themselves, origins explain very little, and historical phenomena can only be understood dynamically—by looking at how events and identities develop and change as a result of encounters and combinations that are often unexpected\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eAs Montanari shows in this lively, brilliant, and surprising essay, all you need to debunk the \"origins myth\" is a plate of spaghetti \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/find.library.duke.edu\/catalog\/DUKE010402373\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/franklin.library.upenn.edu\/catalog\/FRANKLIN_9978089855103681\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e. By tracing the history of one of Italy's \"national dishes\"—from Asia to America, from Africa to Europe; from the beginning of agriculture to the Middle Ages and up to the 20th century—he shows that in order to understand who we are, we almost always need to look beyond ourselves to other cultures, peoples, and traditions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOOKS ALERT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48657117249785,"sku":null,"price":1350.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/5834\/2393\/files\/A_Short_History_of_Spaghetti_with_Tomato_Sauce.webp?v=1783748050","url":"https:\/\/www.booksalert.pk\/products\/a-short-history-of-spaghetti-with-tomato-sauce-booksalert","provider":"BOOKS ALERT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}