Why Italy
Italian Food?
Can you find foods that are impotant to the Italian Culture and explaine why
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- Pasta, pasta and pasta! Tomatos, garlic and Basil. AND Cheese and Olive oil. AND wine, grapes. I guess all these things they were able to grow in their regions and they are actually a very staple part of their diet. The "Family" is very important to the Italian culture and one of the ways they choose to celebrate this is by having Sunday lunches with the whole family, their food brings them together AND it's so delicious, I love the food and regularly cook Italian. Just look up Italian Cuisine on the internet and all your questions will be answered. Have fun exploring.
- Porcini - prized for their flavor and the money you can make selling them. The tomato - the base for many dishes. The same goes for pasta. Polenta - mainly in the north. It was a food that kept many families from starving and today it's gourmet. Sea foods of all sorts - Italy is surrounded by water and has always taken advantage of what its seas has had to offer. Grapes - the ancient Greeks used to grow grapes for wine in Sicily! Today it's a national business and one of Italy's important exports = wine. The same goes for olives - especially for oil and to eat. Cheese - Before the 1950's Italy was mainly agrarian... and many families made their own cheese. There is a bigger variety of cheese in Italy then there is in France. The majority of Italian homes cook with it, cook it, eat it. Game - rabbit, pheasant, pigeon, wild boar, hare, deer, duck and so on. Back to what I said above - many hunted and ate wild game. A thing of the past though you can still find places that serve it. Pork - again the same as above. Many farm families raised at least one pig to slaughter in the fall. Sausage, ham, etc.. Of course now a days more Italians live in the city then in the country side but pork meat is still today very much appreciated. Beef - In Tuscany it is supreme... Only a good piece of grilled beef from the area can compliment the fine wines they produce. Vegetables - especially seasonal. while Italy is not famous for being a vegetarian country there isn't an Italian home that doesn’t eat (raw or cooked) vegetables. The same goes for fruit too. Rice! I've forgotten to mention rice. Grown in the north it too (or at least the method of cooking it = risotto) is an important food stuff.
