🇮🇹 The Real Origin of Pasta & Meatballs Long before it became an American icon, the story began in the hills of Abruzzo, Italy. There, families would roll delicate hand-cut spaghetti alla chitarra and top it with tiny pearls of meat "Le pallottine o polpettine" simmered in rich tomato ragu sauce. These weren’t giant meatballs or heavy plates; they were elegant bites of love, served during Sunday feasts, made by nonnas who measured by heart, not by scale. When Italian immigrants brought those t