Hundreds of Italian restaurants are selling Amatrice's signature pasta to raise money for earthquake relief

The pasta dish that put one Italian city on the map could be integral to its earthquake recovery efforts. Just a day after the central Italian town of Amatrice was devastated by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake Wednesday morning, more than 600 restaurants in Italy are planning to put the town's famous spaghetti all'amatriciana, which The Guardian describes as "a pasta dish with a tomato-based sauce flavored with guanciale, or cured pork cheek," on their menus. For every order sold, the restaurants have reportedly pledged to donate 2 euros to the Italian Red Cross.

The dish was invented in Amatrice in the 1700s, and the city had planned to have its 50th annual spaghetti all'amatriciana festival this weekend before the earthquake hit. Amatrice was one of the cities most devastated by the quake, which is estimated to have killed at least 247 and injured more than 300.

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