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Macaroni

Macaroni is machine-made dry commercial pasta, used in contrast to fresh pasta made at home or in small local businesses.

Thomas Jefferson is credited with bringing the first macaroni machine to the United States in 1789.

There was a song from the time of the American Revolutionary War, talking of Yankee Doodle who stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni. "Macaroni" at the time was a slang term for the most up-to-date of fashions.



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