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a tiny pasta vault smuggling whatever you love most past the dinner table
means small pockets of pasta dough sealed around a filling such as cheese, meat, or vegetables, typically boiled and served in sauce or broth.
from From Italian, the plural of raviolo. The deeper root is debated: one popular thread links it to the Italian word riavvolgere, 'to wrap up,' which fits the little parcels nicely — but historians treat that as more story than certainty. Another suggestion ties it to rava, a dialect word for turnip, hinting at an early vegetable filling. The word has been at home in Italian cooking for centuries before riding into English along with the dish itself.
- first mention
- appears in a 14th-century Venetian merchant's letters
- square logic
- shape seals filling so nothing leaks while boiling
- sweet past
- medieval versions were stuffed with honey and fruit
- toy plural
- raviolo is one, ravioli is the crew
- naval ration
- canned ravioli fed American kids through the Depression
tortellini — pasta from emilia-romagna, italy, filled with meat or cheese, different shape but same concept as ravioli
chef boyardee canned ravioli — mass-produced american brand since 1928, defined ravioli for generations of kids
ravioli di borragine liguria — traditional ravioli from liguria region filled with borage, pine nuts, and cheese