Why is Anti Pasta called "anti" if it's still pasta?!
Why is Anti Pasta called "anti" if it's still pasta?
Answers: In most parts of the world, anti and ante mean 'before'.
It's not anti-pasta, it's anti-pasto (as in 'before the meal') It's not Pasta. An Anti Pasta dish is a dish without Pasta. Meats, cheese, and pickled things. Its ante pasta. It means before the pasta and its usually olives meats and cheeses, not a pasta on the plate. it means before (anti) the pasta, it may be pasta, it may may be another kind of appetizer Because "anti" in Italian means before. therefore the phrase anti pasto means "before pasta" in other words before your dinner or entree. Like an appetizer of cold meats and cheeses. actually its
"anti pasto" which means its just an appetizer.. no pasta in volved at all.. Do you mean "Antipasto?" Antipasto is usually served in Italian restaurants (as an appetizer). The dish contains cold foods, like cold smoked meats, cheese, olives, and raw or marinated veggies. It's really antipasto and the prefix ante is an alternative to ante, which means before, so it's what you eat before the pasta. It's one word, antipasto, and it means, literally, "before food." Anti PastO, not pastA.
Antipasto is the Italian word for snacks served before a meal. These are dishes to pique one's appetite, not quench it. This may consist of one or more dishes of all types of food. Common elements of an antipasto table are cured meats and salamis, olives, marinated vegetables and cheese.
Italian : anti-, before (from Latin ante-; see ante- ) + pasto, food (from Latin pstus, past participle of pscere, to feed; see p- in Indo-European roots) It's not pasta -- It's a salad. And it's not anti-pasta, it's antipasto.