Pasta also cooked nowadays in the Filipino kitchen, like carbonara, pasta with alfredo sauce, and baked macaroni. These dishes are usually cooked for gatherings and special occasions, like family reunions or Christmas. Macaroni or other tube pasta is also used in "sopas", a local chicken broth soup. "Fettuccine alfredo" with cream, cheese and butter, and spaghetti with tomato sauce (with or without meat) are popular Italian-style dishes in the United States. In Australia, boscaiola sauce, based on bacon and mushrooms, is one favorite among many. Although numerous variations of ingredients for different pasta products are known, in Italy the commercial manufacturing
John Pasta "Limiting Procedures in Quantum Electrodynamics" in 1951 under the guidance of Hartland Snyder. He became a staff member of the Los Alamos Laboratory in August 1951. At Los Alamos National Laboratory Pasta would begin his work on his most famous projects. In 1952, working under Nicholas Metropolis on the MANIAC I, John Pasta aided in the construction of an early computer that specialized in calculations around weapons design. After working on the MANIAC I, Pasta continued on to work in the project he is most known for, the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem. After working alongside Enrico Fermi, Stanislaw Ulam, and Mary Tsingou,