What is marinara in italian?

It was given the name marinara not because it was once a seafood sauce, but because it was the favorite food of Italian merchants during long expeditions at sea. A sauce similar to Italian-American marinara sauce is known in some areas of central Italy as sugo finto, literally fake sauce (without meat). One version states that chefs aboard Neapolitan ships returning from America invented marinara sauce in the middle of the 16th century, after the Spanish introduced tomatoes to Europe. The terms should not be confused with spaghetti marinara, a popular dish in Australia, New Zealand, Spain and South Africa, in which a tomato-based sauce is mixed with fresh seafood.

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