Pasta with butter and cheese is what Italians cook when they don't have time to make a proper sauce. Speaking as a man with Italian father from Naples.

I LOVE THESE TYPE OF FOOD TRAVEL VIDEOS. marks take on food with more of a bourdains no reservations type of vibe. really appreciate marks energy all around

you know its a restaurant for tourists when the first page of the menu is written in english lol

In Italy, fettuccine Alfredo is not popular for a simple reason: We make pasta with butter at home, it is a waste to order such a simple dish in a restaurant. Your videos are always very "appetizing", congratulations.

Such enjoyable and informational content. Thank you Mark for always bringing the best videos to me and my family. Blessings upon blessings to you and your beautiful family.🙏🏼🤍🌶️😁

Mark! Your videos never cease to amaze me! Thank you!

Mark, I absolutely loved your pause and voice over during your fettuccine experience... explaining the history behind it. Made my day!

What a blessing to be doing what you love and in the process enjoying the best dishes in the world.

this looks incredible. your energy is great, must have been nice for the staff to witness someone so hyped to be there experiencing what they do best

Great history lesson as well as showing the great food. Love your videos!

As a young cook in North America, I was shown Alfredo as butter, cream and parmessan cheese with a few grates of nutmeg. I was aware that the original had no cream. As I gained experience with cooking pasta, I learned that the starchy pasta water was often used to emulsify with oils like butter to make a sauce. That's exactly what we see here with the original method of cooking Alfredo sauce.

Mark trio's your video is unremarkable I love them. You provide history, education, enjoyment and entertainment all at one time!!!💕😍😋

ohhh...i totally forgot about this channel! So relaxed! Love it ! :)

pasta with butter and parmigiano (pasta burro e parmigiano) is something you eat when you're sick or when you don't have anything else in the fridge

I really like seeing the decorative plants with the little lights. I haven’t been inside a beautiful restaurant in years….. The pasta looks fantastic, definitely.

Excellent timing! We’re heading to Rome in a few weeks and would definitely love to try where the dish originated! Thanks for sharing! We have lunch reservations for our first full day in Rome!!

I have a new appreciation for Fettucine Alfredo, pasta, butter, quality Parmesan cheese makes a rich sauce, well stirred, maybe with a sprinkle of pepper & truffles when plated, delicious!

I love having butters and noodles with parmesan from leftover spaghetti noodles 🍝 ❤!

i can definitely see how this would be a nourishing and helpful dish for new and nursing mothers. postpartum care and the special foods prepared for it in other cultures is so fascinating, and such a big part of food culture - i'd love to see this in one of your videos please!

"The golden fork and spoon for you sir KZfaqr" lol 😂

My dad and mom ate their three days in a row in Rome ! That's how good it was

I’m so hungry right now. Thanks Mark great video.

Love the food origin stories you do Mark!❤

That is just perfect. It may be comfort food in Italy but to me it's a perfect meal anytime.❤

We visited friends in Rome two years ago and it’s true that Romans show a marked disdain for fettuccine Alfredo. They said, “who is Alfredo” when I asked them about it. That said, true Roman Carbonara is so much better than Alfredo ever could be.

Mark, I would take a little on the fork at a time just to enjoy it longer. It looks so wonderful and I am glad you brought this cusine to us.

I am always amazed at the amount of food you are able to put in your mouth at once

Italians do not hate it. But it is such an obvious, easy dish to cook that no one would actually pay someone to cook it. At least in Italy. That's a common dish you prepare for children at home.

Thanks for the great videos on delicious food and food history!

Thanks so much for making this

Great video, loved it, thank you

Wow super easy to make, Gonna try this at home, Rome is to far from NYC 😂 One day, One day I will Visit Rome.

it never got popular because you can easily do it at home. People used to go to restaurants on special occasions, not everyday and therefore looked for fancier dishes than the everyday basic pasta

Great video. I did a history of Alfredo video but I love how you went to the restaurant!!!!

GENIUS M.R. MARK ,THANKS BRO,YOU ARE EXTREMELY APPRECIATED.

My dad's side came directly from Italy during WW2 to escape. We were taught to use large spoons to twirl pasta around a fork. Never a knife at Nana's house for homemade pasta. And she made a cheese sauce just like this, very simple but lightly added garlic and some olive oil with sausage and artichokes on the side. This is NOT American but very simple Italian fare from before the war and as was stated below we would never order this or marinara in a restaurant because we eat both of these at home all the time. I miss my Nana, and I miss her amazing but simple food from her homeland.

Mark, Artichokes are in the Thistle family, and if you let them Bloom (aka go-to flower) you get this Purple Flower. Also, Artichokes are mostly steamed and then baked, but you can deep fry them too. (P.S. I went to Culinary School Just for the fun of it & I love to comment about food too)

I love Rome Mark, and went to some of the soccer games in Rome to … I enjoyed the food immensely have a great rest of the day.

I get that some people say it's dumb to buy expensive food when you can easily make it at home but as someone who don't have access to those things, this is a great info

Nobody cooks "fettuccine alfredo" at home because... it's "pasta burro e parmigiano" a dish that we usually eat when we are in a hurry...

Incredible video. Thanks for sharing.

I'm Roman and in my opinion many Italians think this is an American dish. Maybe this is the reason. Almost a sensation of pizza with pineapple😅

I am going to totally make this. Yes, I have made my own pasta. Man this looks lush!

Thank you Mark for another great video. Your content is always such a pleasure to see, and I like it when you include history or background information, like you did here.

We will always support you, Mark. Keep working hard.

Mate, we don't hate it. Its just that.. imagine someone in USA beginning to bottle hot water and calling it "Mineral Miracle" and imagine people loving it and starting to make YT videos on it, even claiming it as a "traditional American" beverage. As an American wouldn't you feel like an idiot? I mean, everyone can easily make warm water at home.

Thank you for sharing.😊😊

Amazing love this recipe!!!

Mark you make me want pasta now ha! I've never seen artichokes made like that! Both look delicious! Safe travels, can't wait for the next adventure! ❤😊

I love how you weren’t using the spoon correctly then just decided the pasta couldn’t be twirled 😂 the spoon is there to twirl it in, not just to push it around lol

Mark! I have been Going to Thailand the past three years and I stay at the Red Planet hotel on Sukhumvit. I had no idea your restaurant was literally around the corner from the hotel. Going there this summer and will definitely be eating there.

Now this, is on my bucket list !!!!

he doesnt know how to use the golden spoon ^^

It's such a simple, straightforward dish. Why would I go to a fancy restaurant to order something I can make at home for very little money. I love this dish, and I make it at least every month here in the Bronx.

*I always tell my subscribers to watch your channel!*

Mark, I am truly enjoying your new way of making videos with extra narration and edits. Its fun and engaging, reminds me of watching a food documentary on TV. Thank you always for your enthusiasm and knowledge with the food you share with us!

I've never been a fan of alfredo sauce as we know it in the States (the creamy cheese sauce from bottles). Now butter noodles with parmesan cheese on the other hand I eat all the time and love. I never knew that the original recipe for fettuccine alfredo was just that. So simple and so good.😋

Italians don't know what Alfredo pasta is, and don't know what the American version is. Also, this dish isn't famous around the world, only in the US. However, everyone in Italy knows the dish you had in the video. It's just called butter pasta, or pasta with butter and parmesan (pasta al burro). In Italy it's a quick and easy dish, and also something you give to someone who is sick. It's about as common in Italy as a grilled cheese sandwich in the US. It's tasty, but Alfredo didn't invent it.

Hey Mark, love all your videos :) may I ask why you do not use the spoon to twirl your past on? I have noticed a few times and it does make it much easier. Keep up the great videos.

From family stories, my great-grandmother from Mantua, as a young girl, would knead the dough on festive days and then patiently roll it out with a long, narrow rolling pin until it became as thin as a sheet. She would then fold the pasta and cut it by hand with true mastery... and guess how she would dress it? Yes, with butter and Parmesan! This happened in thousands of Italian families , long before the invention of Fettuccine Alfredo. Indeed, the amusement of Italians when it comes to Fettuccine Alfredo can be traced back to the dish’s origins and its perception in Italy versus abroad. Fettuccine Alfredo is a dish that gained fame in the United States thanks to celebrities visiting Alfredo di Lelio's restaurant in Rome in the early 20th century. The dish, in its essence - pasta coated in butter and Parmesan cheese - was a simple, traditional way to enjoy pasta in Italy, similar to the story I shared about my great-grandmother. In Italy, we call this recipe "la pasta dei cornuti" or "cuckold's pasta", because it is assumed that a husband coming home and seeing such a simple dish would think that his wife had been busy with her lover during the day and did not have time to cook a more elaborate meal upon his return. This is one of the reasons why we Italians laugh at the American praises for this dish. Absolutely, despite the humorous cultural anecdotes surrounding it, the dish itself - when made with quality ingredients and care - is undeniably delicious.

I found this on the Internet: In 1943, di Lilio sold the restaurant to a new owner, who kept the restaurant’s name (Alfredo alla Scrofa), menu, and all the photos on the wall. In 1950, Alfredo and his son Armando opened another restaurant, Il Vero Alfredo, “the true Alfredo,” which is now managed by Alfredo’s grandchildren. Both restaurants claim to be the originator of the dish.

Mark this is a tourist scam…my mother used to prepare me this when I was sick😂

Wonderful video Mr. Weins!

Lionfield was been there before... I am glad you loved that beautiful dish. :)

I like going to Italy and asking for it with extra cream, shrimp, and bacon. Priceless.

At the end they are simply: pasta al burro.

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Fresh pasta and that cheese that has been aged. Delicious! The professional and friendly service is beautiful too.♥

Mark don't put so much food at the time in your mouth , love what you do

Perchè solo un fesso va al ristorante per mangiare pasta con burro e parmigiano e pagarla magari 15 euro... Te la fai a casa con 50 centesimi!

Well wow. I really love learning this history and recipe. I always do alfredo with a bechamel based sauce. I really am dying to try this out. And holy crap, you ate with that golden flatware... I wonder how many people have ever done so. Culinary history.

super great video sir Love You All Time 😍😍❤❤

ma in italia le fettucine alfredo non esistono e una pasta invenventa in america. alfredo in italia e il postino 🤣🤣

Famous around the world? I've only heared Americans talk about it...

Such a beautiful city!! Happy you showed the original. I argue with people all the time that Alfredo is only butter and really good parmesean!!

It looks so good!

What you call "fettuccine alfredo" is actually called "pasta al burro" (pasta with butter) in Italy. We usually cook it when we are sick and hence we have to eat something simple, or if we are in a rush. This Alfredo guy in Rome managed to create a legend around it and sell it to tourists for 25 euros, just because they think they are eating the original one. In an average Italian restaurant, this dish is not even on the menu because it is too simple; anyway, if you ask any chef, he or she will prepare it for children that don't want to eat anything of the restaurant proposal. So, Italians don't hate it, they just would never pay that amount of money for a dish made with butter and parmesan. But we surely hate that monstrosity proposed as fettuccine alfredo in the US which is done with chicken, garlic and I don't know what else. Anyway thumbs up for alfredo alla scrofa that was even able to put some butter and parmesan in a jar to sell 🤣

If you come in Rome to eat this you haven't understand what to eat in Rome. This is the dish we Italians calls "burro e parmigiano" and we eat it only when we have stomach sickness.

They have got this down to a science. Love it.❤

Very beautiful video, bravo

Use the spoon to help twist the pasta?

You need to use the spoon under the fork to get the pasta when you're twisting

Fabulous content

Looks delicious! 😋

Pasta Alfredo is a 100% Italian dish, but it isn't Italian, it is American. Ok, got It.

Hi Mark fettuccine Alfredo doesn’t really exist in Italy, it’s more of an American invention. In Italy it’s common to eat pasta with a sauce known as “al burro” (with butter) its pasta served with melted butter that's sometimes infused with fresh sage, as well as grated Parmigiano.

Been to Rome countless times. The food is always wonderful. But those carciofi alla giudia are heaven.

It is so simple. I can make that any time. Good quality butter and lots of cheese, some water. It reminds me of medicine pasta - something to make when I'm feeling bad. I usually don't like white sauces. Make mine red, hot, lots of taste. Wish I could visit Italy! My mother came from a small town in Campania.

Pasta Alfredo is nothing but a joke on Americans. In Italy we call it “pasta in bianco”, or “pasta al burro”, and would never order something so simple in a restaurant! Also most Italians have never heard of this name “Alfredo” used for pasta al burro. Pretty ridiculous.

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Looks great... so simple.

I was taught you combine almost half a stick of butter with maybe a cup of half a half.When that mix is tepid not boiling add drained hot pasta, enough for 2. The measurement was as much parmesan as you could hold in one hand. Once smooth, stir in an egg yolk.

LOL, Mark doesn't know how to use spoon.

8:12 But the spoon is not used that way. You have to turn the spoon ! 😀

Looks so good 👍

I love Mark's videos. He has a real passion for good food. I once saw one of his videos where he literally ate for hours at an Amish buffet. My question is, HOW THE HECK DOES HE STAY SO THIN? 😆

fettuccine Alfredo are 90% show 10% ingredients (the truffle is an extra)

It's not that we hate it, it's just that no one knows it as "Alfredo", it is "pasta al burro" (butter pasta) with cheese (usually Parmigiano) and it's a no-fuss, homely dish that you serve to kids that won't eat anything tastier. It's a "kids menu" pasta dish that is a waste of time and money to order at a restaurant...

Italy will be on top of my bucket list,when i travel to europe.i loveeee pizza n pasta.oh can't wait!

Oh, WOOWW!! This is amazing!! Thank you so much for shining light on such a popular dish here in the States!!