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Italy is home to 395 Michelin star-rated restaurants. [14] [15] The Mediterranean diet forms the basis of Italian cuisine, rich in pasta, fish, fruits and vegetables. [16] Cheese, cold cuts and wine are central to Italian cuisine, and along with pizza and coffee (especially espresso) form part of Italian gastronomic culture. [17]
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.
Polenta once was the universal staple food of the poorer classes, who could afford little else. In Veneto, the corns are ground in much smaller fragments in comparison with the rest of Italy: so, when cooked, it resembles a pudding. Typical of many coastal areas, communities along the coast of the Venetian Lagoon serve mainly seafood dishes.
Restaurants in Italy (5 C, 22 P) Italian rice dishes (4 P) Roman cuisine (3 C, 31 P) S. Salumi (1 C, 27 P) ... Pizzarello (food) Polenta; Pomodorino del Piennolo del ...
Category: Culture of Italy. 95 languages. ... Food and drink in Italy (7 C, 1 P) Italian furniture (3 C) H. Italian heraldry (2 C, 2 P) Cultural heritage of Italy (6 ...
This phenomenon, widespread in all continents, is better known as "Italian Sounding", consisting in the use of words as well as images, colour combinations (the Italian tricolour), geographical references, brands evocative of Italy to promote and market agri-food products which in reality have nothing to do with Italian cuisine. [158]
Fettuccine Alfredo (invented in Rome by the chef of restaurant Alfredo alla Scrofa) is famous abroad, but not considered traditional and mostly unheard of in Rome. There used to be a pasta museum in Rome called "Museo Nazionale della Paste Alimentari", [6] but now there is a hotel there. Rome's most common pasta shape is spaghetti, but there ...
The Antica trattoria Bagutto in Milan, the oldest restaurant in Italy and the second in Europe [3] Lombard cooking has ancient historical roots dating back to the settlement of Celts in the Po Valley. [4] The most ancient Lombardy dish is cuz, whose preparation has Celtic origins: it is a second course based on lamb that is common in Val Camonica.