The Italian food reflects the cultural variety of its regions and its diverse history.

It is imitated and practiced in the worldwide. The Italian gastronomy is known for its most famous dishes, such as pizza, pasta and coffee. The most common ingredients in the Italian food are vegetables and fruits, meats and fishes and rices and pasta. Vegetables and fruits Italian cuisine is rich in unique exquisite dishes made with vegetables. They spend a lot of the dishes prepared with mushrooms. In relation to fruits, citrus acquire a prominent position as the meals served as inputs, using generally for prepare desserts. Meat and fish The Italian food also includes a variety of prepared meats. There are many meat recipes, and some of the most famous dishes with meat are the osso buco, the Bistecca alla fiorentina of Tuscany, the Piedmont misto muffin, etc. There arent big recipes of bird. The fish is abundant in the seas of the peninsula. Fishes of rivers and lakes are also important, as truchas asalmonadas, lamprey, various fish soups, etc. Fish and seafood are the main delights of Italian cuisine. Rice and pasta Pasta is the most important ingredient of this European cuisine. There you can find a large selection of pasta that can be prepared as a main course (like lasagna and macaroni) and usually are served to start the meal, simply, with butter, parmesan, conrag of meat or various, sometimes olive oil or side dishes like mussels. Dishes made with rice (called risotto) are one of the characteristic elements of the kitchen in the north. It is a culinary base which allows to make a variety of dishes, often cooked with fragrant wines, that use spices, sometimes used as filler of other ingredients such as tomatoes or as a garnish for fish or other seafood dishes.

Structure of a typical men A traditional Italian menu consists of different phases; it is conceivable that the Pizza in most cases, in Italy, is considered an unique dish.

The typical menu consists of at least four courses: appetizers, starter, main and dessert. The starter is usually made of little tidbits that stimulate appetite and accompany the appetizer. The classics by Italian appetizer with marinated and grilled vegetables, stuffed mushrooms, sausages and ham, olives fleshy and other miniatures. The starter is usually based on pasta or rice. The main course is usually meat or fish and served with a side dish like braised vegetables. The last place is the dessert, which can consist of only a small cheese board or a piece of fruit or try a regional specialty.

An example of a traditional dish is the napolitan pizza that is from napoles: ingredients: 500 grams of flour A little salt 80 g of anchovy oregano Yeast bread, 6 tablespoons olive oil Crushed tomato 250g mozzarella cheese black Olive ground pepper How to prepare: Put the flour and add the yeast, salt, 4 tablespoons of oil and a cup of warm water. Knead the dough into a ball and let it rest for 2 hours. Sprinkle all ingredients in the dough after uniforme. Let it form in the oven for 20 minute. And to eat!