Italian Foods (1)

As my followers know, I have been living in Italy for 1 and half year and I am studying food engineering. So finally I’ve decided to post a new entry about “Italy” and “Food”. Actually I’ve been thinking of preparing a new article about this subject for a while, however I had been waiting in order to have a sufficient knowledge about this phenomena. So, today is the day !! In order to give information and share my expressions in depth, I keep on writing about “Italy and Food” for the next blog entries.

As you can easily guess, Italian cuisine is not consisting of “pizza” and “pasta”! I accept that these are very famous, however other tasty kinds exist. For getting the idea about the variety of Italian foods, you should visit every region in Italy and obviously you will realize that, every region has some particular type of foods.

For instances, I want to give some examples of cities and their typical foods and beverages. 

Parma - Various kinds of hams, especially; "prosciutto".

 
prosciutto crudo in Toscana

Napoli - Pizza Margherita

 

pizza margherita - Antica Pizzeria Brandi

 Typical Italian pizza does not look like "American pizza". The dough at the lower part is very thin. In 1889 the Pizza Margherita is invented upon the request of Queen Margherita. The Margherita pizza, whose red tomatoes, green basil, and white cheese represent the Italian flag, was named after her.

Toscana - Wine 

wine seller in Florance

 Piatto antipasto - Typical Italian "starter"

 "Classical Italian starter" in Florance

to be continued...