What is the difference between marinara and spaghetti sauce?

Question

What is the difference between marinara and spaghetti sauce?

Answer 1

marinara is also the name of the sauce and spaghetti is the name of the pasta shape.  So you can have fettuccine marinara which is simply fettuccine pasta with marinara sauce.  What we consider spaghetti in the US is spaghetti bolognase there (spaghetti with meat sauce).  But marinara is a basic tomato sauce, primavera is a sauce with a lot of garden vegetables in it (primavera meaning spring in Italian and thereby assuming fresh veggies).  

Answer 2

marinara sauce is a particular spaghetti sauce.

History:

Marinara derives from the Italian word for sailor, marinaro. Due to these origins I have seen many people say that marinara sauce must contain something from the sea, usually anchovies. Actually this is not the case, the origins of marinara sauce are that it is the sauce that they made in Naples for the sailors when they returned from the sea. It is very important to master making a good marinara sauce. Not only is it delicious on it's own over pasta, but as you will see by browsing this site it is a good starting point for many other recipes.

FROM: http://www.italianchef.com/marinara.html

Spaghetti sauce can be the same as or different from Marinara.

If you order spaghetti sauce at a restaurant, you might get any of several recipes. If you order Marinara, there is a narrow range of tomato- based sauces that you might get.

Answer 3

sp  Aprileghetti has meat in it. and marnara sauce doesn't have any meat in it.

Answer 4

Spaghetti sauce is the generic name; Marinara is a specific type;

another is Bolognese, yet another is Alfredo.