Italian food? Well, pizza, spaghetti, tortellini... what else? It's all quite the same, or not? No, it's not quite the same ...absolutely not!

When I came to live in Italy 25 years ago, I was really surprised with the big differences in cooking even between two small cities far 7 km one from another.

(“English is not my mother tongue, so please forgive my accent!” )

The food culture in Italy is really... culture. Nobody can deny it. It's part of italians' life. It's unique and deserves attention.

Think about pasta. It is known as an italian specialty, but it came from Arabian people. Italians developed it so well that it became an Italian typical product. There are so many types of pasta that it is even difficult to find a complete list of them.

Italian wine costs less than water in most restaurants! I mean the “property one” (vino della casa). A bottle of mineral water in a restaurant in Rome costed me the day before yesterday € 5, and a ¼ liter of red wine € 3. The more important wines have a wide range of prices, but you really have good choices. Italian wines are at the first place in US market… and there must be a reason for it.

I personally began to learn about Italian food when I got married and came to live in Italy (Sardinia). I began to live closely to these traditions, quite making them mine. I learned how to cook a “sugo” (tomato salse) and make pasta at home; so that I could open a small spaghetti house in Rio while living there for a while.

There are so many recipes as small centres, and the curious thing is that they’re jealous one from another! You may say: ”Your pork sausage reminds me the one I ate yesterday at dinner in … (close city or centre)”. You’ll probably hear as an answer: ”No. They use this spice (example) and we don’t. We use this other one!” It’d be quite a fault to have the same recipe!

Here you will find info about the italian food history, interesting recipes of traditional food used for Christmas or other Holidays occasions, pasta recipes, easy recipes (yes! Italian women now work out of home and have to optimize their time – without losing their taste for good food!), risotto recipes, tips about italian food cooking and eating, and so on.

Drop me a line if you need something else that I have not yet published here.

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