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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.
In Latin America, dishes may be claimed or designated as a plato nacional, [351] although in many cases, recipes transcend national borders with only minor variations. [citation needed] Preparations of ceviche are endemic in Peru and Ecuador, while a thin cut of beef known as matambre is considered close to being a national dish in Paraguay. [352]
Spaghetti (Italian: [spaˈɡetti]) is a long, thin, solid, cylindrical pasta. [1] It is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine. [2] Like other pasta, spaghetti is made of milled wheat, water, and sometimes enriched with vitamins and minerals.
Italians (Italian: italiani, pronounced [itaˈljaːni]) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region. [45] Italians share a common culture, history, ancestry and language.
A dish of dry agnolotti pavesi, a type of stuffed pasta, with a Pavese stew-based sauce. Due to the great territorial and historical variety of Lombardy, it is very difficult to identify a unified Lombard cuisine: it makes more sense to identify a continuum of provincial cuisines having similar elements throughout the region.
Bar food in Venice, Italy A row of cicchetti topped with mortadella, dried tomatoes and smoked salmon respectively. Cicchetti (Italian: [tʃikˈkɛtti]; sg.: cicchetto; from the Latin ciccus, meaning 'small quantity'), also sometimes spelled cichetti or called cicheti in Venetian language, are small snacks or side dishes, typically served in traditional bacari (pron. bàcari; sg.: bacaro, pron ...
Farsu magru. Farsu magru, also spelled farsumagru and also referred to as farsumauru, falsomagro and falsumagru, is a traditional meat roll dish in Sicilian cuisine that dates to the 13th century.
In the early 19th century, a recipe already existed, known as "old wife pear compote".The pears were cooked in a pan with red wine, sugar, a piece of cinnamon and cloves. ...