"Your Mother's Meatballs...Perfected Who invented the meatball? That's like asking who invented pasta. We will never know. "Recipes" from long ago happened by accident and utilized the wit and whim of the cook and what was on hand. And so it must be with meatballs. What we do know is that just about every country has them from the familiar buffet table Swedish meatballs to the little known meatballs (frikadeller) from Denmark that are made with pork, flour and club soda! Today, the humble meatball has g..."