The sacred grail of pastas, spaghetti is an Italian staple. Children are patiently taught how to twirl just the right amount of spaghetti on their forks from a young age, practicing regularly (hint, don’t start in the middle, take just one or two strands and twirl, no spoon.) Spaghiar...
It is common cause that bread is the center of Italian life and that Italians are as passionate about bread as they are about everything else. TYPES OF ITALIAN BREAD ORGANIZED BY REGION Like everything else in Italy,bread is regional. In the North there are many fine breads but it serves...
Pasta is a generic term for noodles of various lengths, widths and shapes, either accompanied by a sauce or filled with other ingredients. Note that in Italian pasta is also the generic term for any kind of dough (bread, pizza), but it is usually made clear from the context what type ...
First of all, a traditional Italian pizza has a round shape, it’s made to order, and it’s baked in a wooden oven. As you will see below, there are plenty of regional varieties, but most of those on our list are from Naples, and they’ve got specific ingredients, that are not t...
For those who love Italian sweets, this probably won’t come as a big surprise since so much of what makes them delicious is related to the hazelnut. Hazelnuts are widely cultivated and beloved throughout Italy. Some of the major varieties of hazelnuts grown in Italy are: Tonda Gentile Roman...
Pasta comes in many shapes and sizes, there are hundreds of them… it is a staple dish in Italian cuisine but many other counties make pasta varieties as well. Quite a few pasta shapes have more than one name depending on the region they were produced. ...
And that it traveled westward from there by way of nomadic Arab tribes to Europe. Whichever of the stories may be true, the facts are these: pasta is one of the most beloved food in the world today, and it is indistinguishable from Italian cuisine. THE ULTIMATE TYPES OF PASTA WITH ...
Ciabatta, pronounced “chya-baht-ah”, is a type of bread that originated in 1982 in Veneto, Italy. Ciabatta, meaning “slipper” in Italian, was inspired by the baguette’s popularity, but instead made into a slipper-shape instead of the baguette’s famous cylindrical shape with tapered end...
While the cheese has been made since antiquity, the current name came into the Greek language in the 17th century, from the Italian word fetta, slice, referring to slicing the cheese from the brick. Feta cheese with olives. Serve it a drizzle of olive oil, and bread: a delicious mezze ...
Sandwich, in its basic form, slices of meat, cheese, or other food placed between two slices of bread. Although this mode of consumption must be as old as meat and bread, the name was adopted only in the 18th century, after John Montagu, 4th earl of Sand