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Regional Cuisines
Italian food has always been a mixed variety of regional foods, each with unique combinations and ways of cooking. Below are some of the most famous regional cuisines:
- Tuscany: With the authentic note of the countryside, the Tuscan cuisine boasts simple flavors, based on exceptional products like beans, game hunted in the surrounding woods, and thick wholesome bread. Many classic meals are infused with simple but eloquent flavors from herbal mixtures combined with olive oil.
- Naples: The birthplace of pizza, Naples is renowned for its Neapolitan pizza with a chewy crisp crust baked in a wood-fired oven, topped with tomato sauce preferably from San Marzano tomatoes and fresh mozzarella. It also has an assortment of seafood dishes which generally represent a place on the coast.
- Emilia-Romagna – Known for its sumptuous cuisine, the region is the birthplace of homemade pasta, sausages, and that famed Bolognese sauce. Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and balsamic vinegar complete the troika of its foodstuffs.
- Sicily: The food of Sicily is a riot of colors and flavors, sea products, and fruits like lemons, oranges; olive oil, and capers. The history of conquest and commerce also clearly represents variety in the foods offered.
- Liguria: This is a coastal region that boasts pesto pasta with basil, garlic, pine nuts, and Parmesan cheese. Ligurian cuisine concentrates on the sea and its creatures, and the famous focaccia…
- Lombardy: Filled with creamy risottos and rich meat dishes such as ossobuco, the food of Lombardy is rich and filling. Its cheeses too have become known, especially Gorgonzola and Taleggio.
- Puglia: Representative of simplicity, Puglian cuisine depends on locally sourced ingredients, olive oil, fresh vegetables, and seafood. A regional specialty, this ‘ear-shaped’ Orecchiette pasta is frequently served with a multitude of sauces.
- Arancini: Sicilian and filled with ragù, mozzarella, and peas.
Ragù alla Bolognese: A meat sauce accompanying tagliatelle; the staple of Emilia-Romagna. - Pizza: Authentic Neapolitan pizza is indeed a very simple delicacy – tomato with fresh mozzarella, basil leaves, olive oil on a dough base.
Agnolotti: Traditional Piedmontese stuffed pasta with roast meat or vegetables. - Sfogliatelle: Pastries from Naples filled with sweet ricotta, candied peel, or almond paste. Prosciutto: Dry-cured ham, a typical antipasto, much heard of from Parma. Embracing Italian culinary traditions
From a warm ribollita to the frontier of pasta dishes with sea urchins, the food in this country is the best trip to take the taste buds anywhere. Every food item represents the locality that it is associated with and hence every lunch or dinner is a cultural heritage tour of Italy.
Source: thegreenvoyage.com
