Fettuccine is a type of

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popular in Roman cuisine. It is descended from the extremely thin of the

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, but is a flat, thick pasta traditionally made of

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and

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(usually one egg for every of flour). At about , it is wider and thicker than, but similar to, the tagliatelle typical of

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, which are more common elsewhere in Italy and is often used as a synonym. Spinach fettuccine is made from

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, flour and eggs. The terms and are often used as synonyms for this pasta, but the former term is more precisely used for wider (about ) and the latter for narrower (about ) forms of the same pasta. Fettuccine is often classically eaten with ('beef ragù') or ('chicken ragù'). A famous dish made with fettuccine is fettuccine Alfredo, a simple dish of pasta,

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and butter which was created and named at a restaurant in Rome in the early 20th century as a tableside "performance". It is popular in the United States, where it is made with cream, although almost unknown in Italy. Fettuccine is traditionally made fresh (either at home or commercially), but dried fettuccine can also be bought in stores.

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