Flat, ribbon-like Italian pasta, wider than spaghetti and traditionally served with cream and cheese sauces like Alfredo.
From Italian 'fettuccia' meaning small ribbon, which comes from 'fetta' (slice or strip). The word entered English in the 1960s during the wave of Italian cuisine popularity in North America.
Fettuccine Alfredo isn't even traditionally Italian—it was invented in Rome in 1914 by Alfredo di Lelio, an Italian-American entrepreneur! The dish became so famous that Italian restaurants eventually had to serve it authentically.
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