You know Italians are passionate, sometimes even too much. You just need to look at them when it comes to soccer. In the kitchen, if there is something likely to start up a heated discussion around the table – besides soccer, of course – it must be the way you eat your spaghetti (and long pasta in general). 

You are probably acquainted with the traditional way to do it, the one made iconic by Alberto Sordi in Un Americano a Roma: stick the fork in the pasta, roll it between your fingers as if you were screwing something, lift the rolled ball of spaghetti to your mouth, enjoy. However, both in Italy and abroad, you may have come across other techniques and, rightly so, you may be wondering if they are used in Italy or not.