If you see him at the theatre he will scarce wink without his opera-glasses. None of these magazines lasted for more than a few issues, and all relied on the same heavily sarcastic jokes at the expense of the macaronis 'Yesterday died of a Consumption, occasioned by the Use of Paint, Sir William Whiffle, who has long been deemed the first-rate Macaroni of the Age' with accounts of fashionable amusements such as theatres and masquerades.
One of the more amusing descriptions comes from the Macaroni Jester and purports to be a 'Journal of a Maccaroni':. Breakfast at Twelve — over the Morning Papers. Dressed by Half-past One — to saunter to the Park and stare at the Women, for the Reputation of having a Taste for them. At Three o'Clock saunter into the City, to show myself to the Brutes who are void of taste. Even well-established magazines like the Lady's Magazine increased their sales by articles and stories involving macaronis and their female counterparts, whom Walpole called 'Macaronesses' and who carried to extremes the prevailing fashions, particularly the very high hairstyles and headdresses of the s.
In , for example, the Lady's Magazine for January published 'The Macaroni Dialogue, or a Colloquy between Sir Harry Dimple and Lady Betty Frisky', illustrated with an engraving showing these two leaders of fashion discussing their plans to appear at the Pantheon that evening:. Sir Har: I hope I shall have the honour of your ladyship's hand to walk a minuet or turn a cotillon — We shall be two of the most exquisite figures in the whole rotunda Lady Bet: I beg, Sir Harry, that your club maybe increased in proportion to my head, or else we shall not be fit partners.
Sir Har: My lady, I shall have it just as large again, and I propose my toupee shall be heightened three inches. An event in which some macaronis were involved, and which brought them great discredit, was the famous 'Vauxhall affray' of July While walking in Vauxhall Gardens the actress Mrs Hartley 'was put out of countenance by what she deemed the impudent looks of four or five gentlemen'; her companion Parson Henry Bate afterwards Sir Henry Bate Dudley remonstrated with the young men; but one of them, 'a little effeminate being, whom I afterwards found to be a Mr Fitz-Gerall, came up to me, dressed a la Macaroni, and impertinently asked me "whether any man had not a right to look at a fine woman".
The newspapers were full of this affair and of the humiliation of the macaronis, and Bate was said to have acquired the name of the Fighting Parson. Like all such fashions, the macaroni craze could not be prolonged indefinitely and some months after the Vauxhall affray Walpole remarked on their disappearance from the fashionable scene: 'Even the Maccaronis degenerate; they have lost all their money and credit and ruin nobody but their tailors' February By , according to Fanny Burney, even the word was was no longer the 'ton'.
One of the main reasons for the decline of the macaroni in high society was, of course, the fact that the fashion was taken up by the City, and even by the lower classes as it worked its way down. In its exaggerated form it excited contempt; in the comedy The Macaroni , performed in at the theatre in the Haymarket, the main character Epicene, whom we see being dressed by his French valet, complains that it is impossible to introduce Italian fashions in England because of the hostility they aroused.
Yet by exaggerating the trends towards a slender figure as typified by the narrow cut coat, the macaronis were merely in advance of the fashion uniformly adopted by the outbreak of the French Revolution. Modern men, in addition, might be grateful for the innovation in pursuit of an unbroken narrow line of the inside pocket introduced by the macaronis and firmly established by the late s. The macaronis provided entertainment to their contemporaries for a decade, and to the social historian a revealing side line on the vagaries of fashion.
This article was originally published in the July issue of History Today with the title 'The Macaronis'. I wiped my wet boots on the mat and entered Gipfelrestaurant Fronalpstock , a wood-lined mountain tavern on the edge of the snow-capped Schwyzer Alps that overlooks the eerily turquoise Urnersee. Although it lacked the slices of smoky bacon or ham often found in the dish, it was smartly served with a cold, sweet ladleful of apfelmus apple sauce to cut through the stodginess.
But it was warm and restorative — and as natural a fit to the Swiss Alps as cow bells, gondolas and yodels. Many countries have a profound love and deep historical connection to a version of this dish — including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and of course Italy, where pasta was first popularised in Europe. Americans especially love to claim macaroni cheese as their own, and indeed Kraft invented the boxed version using macaroni in at the height of the Great Depression, helping popularise it worldwide.
But neither cheese nor macaroni were invented in the US, and tracing the dish takes us back centuries and to several accounts about its possible origins. It appears in several old cookbooks, but none provide conclusive evidence of how, when or where the macaroni cheese dish evolved into the pasta bake of modern day.
Some scholars believe that that 7th-Century nomadic Arabs then likely brought it with them while travelling from Libya to Sicily, from where it spread north along the Italian peninsula. Take chese and grate it, and butter imelte, cast bynethen and abouven as losyns [lasagna]. Definition of macaroni. Synonyms Did you know? Example Sentences Learn More About macaroni. Synonyms for macaroni Synonyms beau , Beau Brummell , buck , dandy , dude , fop , gallant , jay , lounge lizard , pretty boy Visit the Thesaurus for More.
Did you know? Examples of macaroni in a Sentence the glitter rock of the s seemed more about mascaraed macaronis than about music. Recent Examples on the Web Kraft has been known to experiment with their beloved macaroni and cheese boxes.
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