Happy International Spaghetti Day!   We must have been pretty gauche back in the 1970s because in her eponymous cookbook, Margaret Fulton had to show us how to eat spaghetti. Lord only knows what we’d been doing before this.  Launching face-first into the plate?  Lady and the Tramping it?  Employing scissors a la Buster Keaon?

Thank goodness we had Margaret to tell us how to do it with a modicum of grace and class.

Three Steps to Spaghetti Eating Heaven

I very clearly remember my parents teaching me this exact method of twirling spaghetti in our favourite Italian restaurant (Leo’s Spaghetti Bar) when I was around 5. I’m not sure if they had been taking lessons from Margaret or were just trying to prevent the tabletop from looking like Armageddon.  Apparently, though this is not the proper way of eating spaghetti at all.

It would be remiss if I left this post without commenting on the model in the spoon twirling shots.  That woman has quite hairy arms.  Nowadays she would be epilated, waxed and / or photoshopped into hairless conformity.  The 1970s were content to let it all hang out.  Except for their spaghetti which was tightly coiled around a fork, thanks to Margaret Fulton!

If you would like to celebrate today by eating some spaghetti, you can find a recipe here!

Have a great week!