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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The Inventor Of Fettuccine Alfredo Was - No Surprise - A Guy Named Alfredo
Description: It's National Pasta Day, and here’s a pasta fact that you might have guessed: Fettucine Alfredo comes from an actual guy named Alfredo. Plus: this month in 1990 that a swarm of so-called "killer bees" crossed into the US for the first time on record. The south Texas community of Hidalgo had a big reaction.
The Real Alfredo (Saveur)
Hidalgo, Texas's, Killer Bee Statue, a nod to a historical moment in October 1990 when the first known swarm of these "Africanized" bees was documented to have crossed into the United States from Mexico and into this lit...