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Clockwise from top left; some of the most popular Italian foods: Neapolitan pizza, carbonara, espresso, and gelato. Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine [1] consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Roman times, and later spread around the world together with waves of Italian diaspora.
Pasta is a staple food [1] of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily. [2] It is also commonly used to refer to the variety of pasta dishes.
Zanini De Vita, Oretta; Fant, Maureen B. (2013). Sauces & Shapes: Pasta the Italian Way.New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-08243-2.; Gosetti Della Salda ...
Amatriciana sauce, known in Italian as amatriciana (matriciana in Romanesco dialect), [2] is a sauce made with tomatoes, guanciale (cured pork cheek), pecorino romano cheese, black pepper, extra virgin olive oil, dry white wine, and salt.
As with many recipes, the origins of the dish and its name are obscure; [10] most sources trace its origin to the region of Lazio. [11] [6] [5]The dish forms part of a family of dishes consisting of pasta with cured pork, cheese, and pepper, one of which is pasta alla gricia.
The pizza di Pasqua (lit. ' Easter pizza '), in some areas also called crescia di Pasqua, torta di Pasqua, torta al formaggio or crescia brusca, is a leavened savory cake typical of many areas of central Italy based on wheat flour, eggs, pecorino and Parmesan.
Strozzapreti (Italian: [ˌstrɔttsaˈprɛːti]; lit. ' priest choker ' or ' priest strangler ' [1]: 152 [2]) are an elongated form of cavatelli, or hand-rolled pasta typical of the Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Marche and Umbria regions of Italy as well as in the state of San Marino.
A cup of cappuccino and cornetti at breakfast (colazione). The most popular breakfast (colazione) is sweet, consumed at home or at a café.If the breakfast is consumed at home, it consists of coffee (espresso or prepared with a moka pot), milk or caffè latte accompanied by baked goods such as biscuits, for example shortbread, or by slices of bread spread with butter and jam or with honey or ...