Alfredo!

I was having dinner with mah Italian pals last night and we were discussing cuisines from different parts of Italy. He goes like yeah there is nothing like Alfredo Sauce, you will get a blank stare if you ask for dish with Alfredo Sauce. Whaaattttt? What do you mean there is no Alfredo Sauce, I have been to Italian restaurants across the country and they all have dishes named with Alfredo.

Then he smiles and says let me guess, you probably don't know that Burritos, dont really exist in Mexico and Burrito means a donkey. A double whammy. Crap! I feel cheated! F***. Got home and ran to wikipedia and searched for Alfredo Sauce and Burrito. The ray of knowledge shines from the heavens! Salvation

In both the cases, the names have their origins thanks to 2 guys.

Alfredo di Lelio attached his name to a recipie of Fettuccini (fettuccine al burro ) called he came up with. Butter is added to the serving dish before and after fettuccini is placed. Alfredo doubled the amount of butter that is added before the fettuccini is added and dish was born! His dish was made famous in US by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. They fell in love with it when they had in his restaurent Alfredo alla Scrofa. They shared the recipie with their friends and the word spread!.

So there was this dude Juan Mendez, way back in 1910's was selling tacos using his donkey as a transport. His taco's became famous and soon ppl were looking for "Food of the burrito", and hence the name Burritos. Now get this, not everyone in Mexico would recognize the word Burrito since it was only northern parts was Burritos or known as taco de harina was known. It is a case of a Mexican food more famous outside Mexico.