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To celebrate National Pasta Day, we present this video to help you learn about mistakes people make while cooking pasta and tomato sauce, and about regional food in Italy. continue reading...
Guest Author: Valery Fortie is the national awareness coordinator for the preservation of the Italian healthy eating traditions board. continue reading...
Regional cuisine is a great way to get a feel for the culture of the location to which you are traveling. And what’s the best part of the meal? Dessert. Check out this list of foreign desserts you shouldn’t skip while traveling: continue reading...
While it originated in Italy (probably), pizza has permeated diets across the globe – most notably the American diet. Americans have wholeheartedly accepted and appropriated the pizza. And while a traditional pizza still consists of a crust topped with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese and oven-baked, there are so many variations on the theme it’s tough to keep track. New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Hawaii and California are just a few locations with regional-specific pizza styles. If you ever have trouble choosing which to try, it’s fortunate that GQ food writer Alan Richman outlined the top 25 pizzas across the States. Here’s the list:
- Great Lake (Chicago)
- Lucali (Brooklyn, NYC)
- Pizzeria Delfina (San Francisco)
- Pizzeria Bianco (Phoenix)
- Bob & Timmy’s (Providence, R.I.)
- Sally’s Apizza (New Haven, Conn.)
- Tomato Pie (Los Angeles)
- Co. Company (Manhattan, NYC)
- Tacconelli’s (Philadelphia)
- Totonno’s (Brooklyn, NYC)
- Tarry Lodge (Port Chester, N.Y.)
- Frank Pepe (New Haven, Conn.)
- Luigi’s “the Original” (Harrison Township, Mich.)
- Gialina (San Francisco)
- Buddy’s (Detroit)
- Antica Pizzeria (Marina Del Ray, Calif.)
- A16 (San Francisco)
- Al Forno (Providence, R.I.)
- Galleria Umberto (Boston)
- Famous Joe’s (Manhattan, NYC)
- Tomatoes Apizza (Farmington Hills, Mich.)
- Osteria (Philadelphia)
- Santarpio’s (Boston)
- Niki’s (Detroit)
- Una Pizza Napoletana (Manhattan, NYC)
In an effort to ensure Italians eat Italian food, the town of Lucca has banned “foreign” food from being sold within its historic city walls. “Foreign” food refers to such dishes as kebabs, sushi or Chinese food. French food is allowed, and therefore it is unclear what is meant by ethnic food. Read more… continue reading...
Italy is currently the world’s biggest consumer of wine… But not for long. By 2012, the United States will overtake Italy. And China and Russia will soon overtake Spain, which is a country whose history is associated with this alcohol. Read more… continue reading...
Now here is information I have always wanted. Here is a list of the best locations in the world for chocolate and the names of their finest chocolate makers: continue reading...