my favorite food is spaghetti and meatballs.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Spaghetti with meatballs (or spaghetti and meatballs) is an American dish consisting of spaghetti, tomato sauce and meatballs. It is widely believed that spaghetti with meatballs was an innovation of early 20th-century Italian immigrants in New York City; the National Pasta Association (originally named the National Macaroni Manufacturers Association) is said to be the first organization to publish a recipe for it, in the 1920s. Italian writers often mock the dish as pseudo-Italian or non-Italian because, in Italy, meatballs are served only with egg-based baked pasta and are smaller. However, various kinds of pasta with meat are part of the culinary tradition of the Abruzzo, Apulia, Sicily, and other parts of southern Italy. A recipe for rigatoni with meatballs is in \"Il cucchiaio d'argento\" (\"The Silver Spoon\"), a comprehensive Italian cookbook known as the \"bible\" of Italian Cooking. Other dishes that have similarities to spaghetti and meatballs include \"pasta seduta\" 'seated pasta' and \"maccaroni azzese\" in Apulia. Some baked pasta dishes from Apulia combine pasta and meat where meatballs, mortadella, or salami are baked with rigatoni, tomato sauce, and mozzarella, then covered with a pastry top.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I just love spaghetti and meatballs.  It's my favorite Italian dish."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's a great innovation by early 20th century Italian immigrants! Do you like any other similar dishes?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I really like all white sauced pasta. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Nice! \"pasta seduta\" and \"maccaroni azzese\" are two other very similar dishes to spaghetti."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Is macaroni and cheese considered an Italian dish?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes! These dishes are considered part of the culinary tradition in Southern Italy. Have you ever had rigatoni?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have not is it also a type of pasta?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes! There is a recipe for rigatoni with meatballs in a popular Italian cookbook know as the bible of cooking!"}]