The history of Alfredo sauce has celebrity roots dating back to the days of silent film.
It all started in Rome in 1914, when the owner of the restaurant Via della Scrofa, Alfredo di Lelio, was desperate to find a cure for his wife Ines’ pregnancy nausea. In an effort to keep her meal simple and comforting, he tossed together hot pasta with Parmesan cheese and butter.
It did the trick! Ines found the dish so appealing that it soon appeared on the restaurant menu as the “fatte in case,” or house-made pasta.
A few years later, in 1920, Hollywood superstar couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks stop…
The history of Alfredo sauce has celebrity roots dating back to the days of silent film.
It all started in Rome in 1914, when the owner of the restaurant Via della Scrofa, Alfredo di Lelio, was desperate to find a cure for his wife Ines’ pregnancy nausea. In an effort to keep her meal simple and comforting, he tossed together hot pasta with Parmesan cheese and butter.
It did the trick! Ines found the dish so appealing that it soon appeared on the restaurant menu as the “fatte in case,” or house-made pasta.
A few years later, in 1920, Hollywood superstar couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks stop…
