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History About Italian Food

Beginning of Italian culinary culinary influences come from Ancient Greece, the Middle East and Rome. The Romans who always enjoy delicious food and quality cuisines adopted many of the colonies, for example the use of spices and sweet and sour sauce in cooking wild game meat from the Middle East. For centuries, Italian cuisine has reached the stage of completion. In the year 1533, when Catherine de Medicci French nobleman would marry King Henry II, he hired a cook in the palace of France and Italy to introduce the manufacture of cakes recipes, ingredients cream, meat cooking methods, and various kinds of vegetables such as artichokes, broccoli, and pods. This marks the beginning of the influence of Italian Haute cuisine ("haute cuisine") in France.

Some typical italian cuisine italian section is divided into northern, central, south, islands and drinks. So let's see:


Northern Italian Cuisine

Characteristic cuisine of Northern Italy from other area is the heavy use of butter rather than olive oil. Here even more rarely eaten pasta as citizens of this region consume more polenta. risotto, and a variety of hearty soup usually cooked in the winter.

Of breeding areas, especially in Emilia Romagna and Liguria produced a variety of meat products such as beef, veal, pork and lamb. While the fish, eels, ducks and wild birds is obtained from the River Po. Coasts Veneto produces many shells and my head.

1. Bagna Cauda

Bagna cauda, ​​the name of this dish caldo blagno derived from the word meaning "hot bath". With the introduction of Piedmont cooked with garlic sauce. How to make a sauce with butter, garlic oil and fish zaitung. After the mixed heated and guests use a skewer to pierce vegetables fresh and warmed.

2. Risotto 

Risotto, spiced saffron rice from Milan. At first glance it looks like yellow rice. Milanesse style risotto made ​​from Arborio rice cooked with beef or chicken broth. Be careful when cooking this one, because the Arborio rice cooked quickly. Unlike the rice in the country.

3. Fegatto alla Veneziana

Fegatto alla Veneziana, prepared from the liver is sliced ​​boiled with onions, is one of the classic dishes enjoyed until now.

4. Pesto

Pesto, sauces kind of a combination of basil, olive oil, and pine nuts. Usually served with pasta. This sauce originated in Genoa.

5. Torellini

Tortellini is a delicious  pasta in the center contains the meat tastier. According to one legend of tortellini take the form of umbilical venus goddess of beauty. Which could explain the relationship of people with food italian national. Thick sauce and served with various vegetables such as peas, button mushrooms and broccoli.

6. Fagioli all’uccelletto

Italian Cuisine Middle

In Italy the center, the weather was warmer than in utaraKawasan is rich in agricultural and livestock products such as poultry, beef, pork, lamb, tomatoes, black leaf kale, chestnuts, saffron and farro.Farro is a typical type of crops that have been cultivated since ancient the Romans.

1. Abacchio al forno

Abacchio al forno, roasted lamb with rosemary from Rome.

2. Sfogliatelle

Sfogliatele is a snack that has a crunchy texture and has many layers. Sfogliatelle looks like carved shells and forming characteristics of the mountains as the top layer of cake batter. Usually filled with sweet ricotta cream, cinnamon mixture and semolina. A little candied lemon or orange are also good to add.

Southern Italian Cuisine

1. Tiella

Tiella is the name of dishes cooked in earthenware baking dishand top plate. Enjoyed with wine is a favorite of southern italiancitizen. With a touch of potato, tomato and porcini makes the dishlooks delicious.

2. Maccheroni con le sarde

macaroni with sardine sauce from Sicily.

3. Buridda

Buridda, fish soup from Sardinia

Archipelago

Two large Italian island, Sardinia and Sicily, has a different history with the mainland so very bervariasi.Hal culinary tradition that caused the two islands under the influence of the nations which had occupied it before it united with Sicily Italia.Masakan influenced by the Greeks, Kartaginia , Roman, Bizanine, Arab, Norman, and Sardinia under the influence of culinary Spanyol.Sementara Nation Phoenicia, Karthaginia, Roman, Bizantine, Spain and Austria.