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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.
1989 commemorative plaque in Naples marking the 100th anniversary celebration of the creation of pizza Margherita Uncooked pizza Margherita on a pizza peel. Pizza Margherita, also known as Margherita pizza, [1] is a typical Neapolitan pizza, roundish in shape with a raised edge (the cornicione) and garnished with hand-crushed peeled tomatoes, mozzarella (buffalo mozzarella or fior di latte ...
Cake is a form of bread or bread-like food.In its modern forms, it is typically a sweet baked dessert.In its oldest forms, cakes were normally fried breads or cheesecakes, and normally had a disk shape.
The history of pizza began in antiquity, as various ancient cultures produced flatbreads with several toppings. Pizza today is an Italian dish with a flat dough-based base and toppings, with significant Italian roots in History.
This page lists more than 1,000 types of Italian cheese but is still incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Pecorino romano. This is an article of Italian cheeses.Italy is the country with the highest variety of cheeses in the world, with over 2,500 traditional varieties, among which are about 500 commercially recognized cheeses [1] and more than 300 kinds of cheese with protected ...
The Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano was a comprehensive world reference atlas first published by the Touring Club Italiano in 1927.. In order to give Italy an extensive reference atlas modelled on foreign examples such as Stielers Handatlas in Germany, shortly after World War I preparatory work to this end began under the direction of Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli (founder of the ...
Pizza quattro formaggi (Italian: [ˈkwattro forˈmaddʒi]; lit. ' four cheese pizza '), also known as pizza ai quattro formaggi, is a variety of pizza in Italian cuisine that is topped with a combination of four types of cheese, usually melted together, with (rossa, lit.
Polenta porridge with lentils (bottom) and cotechino sausage (top). Polentone (Italian pronunciation: [polenˈtone]; plural polentoni, feminine polentona) is an epithet of the Italian language originally coined with a joking connotation [1] [2] to indicate a great polenta eater and, subsequently, used by the inhabitants of Southern Italy to indicate the inhabitants of Northern Italy in a ...