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Italian Recipes
Italian cuisine is respected, loved, and eaten all over the world.
Outside of Italy, the best-known dishes
include pizza and pasta, but Italian food has much else to offer too,
including excellent meat and seafood dishes, superb cheeses, and a
wonderful range of desserts.
As far as pasta is concerned there are many times.
The most popular type is spaghetti, which is long thing strings of pasta
(spaghetti actually means "thin strings"). Other popular types
include vermicelli (also string-like), fettucine and linguine (ribbon-shaped),
lasagna (large sheets), rotelle and farfalle (decorative shapes), and,
ravioli and tortellini (stuffed pasta). Although all forms of pasta are
made from basically the same ingredients, the different shapes do affect the taste and
choice of recipe, because each individual shape interacts with sauce in a different
way.

Italy is a country of great regional contrasts,
and this fact is reflected in its food. Additionally, many outside
influences have contributed to Italian cuisine (although the legend
that Marco Polo introduced pasta from
China does appear to
be apocryphyl).
Some of the region dishes and ingredients that you may encounter in
Italian food include:
- Sardinia is famous for its lamb and pecorino (cheese made from sheep's milk).
- Arab influence played an important part in the development of Sicilian cuisine,
including the introduction of lemon and pistachio. Sicily is also known for its seafood,
particularly swordfish and tuna, but it is in desserts where the island has had the
greatest influence of all:
both gelato (ice cream)
and granita (a delicious semi-frozen
dessert made using sugar, water and flavorings) originate from Sicily.
- Calabria (the region corresponding to the "toe" of
Italy) is known for its spicy version of salami.
- Naples is the home of mozzarella, pizza and sfogliatelle (Italian filled pastries).

- Whereas Sicilian and Neopolitan pizzas are quite thick,
Roman pizzas extremely thin. Rome is also known for its use of
offal and pecorino (cheese made from sheep's milk).
- Tuscany is known for its meat, white beans and unsalted bread.
- Products from the North of Italy include
balsamic vinegar,
lasagna,
mortadella (a heat-cured pork sausage, served as a cold cut)
parmigiano (parmesan cheese)
polenta (a dish made from boiled corn-meal),
prosciutto (dry cured ham),
ragu (bolognese sauce),
rice and
tortellini (stuffed pasta).
Piedmont and Lombardy both produce their own distinctive (and different from each other)
variety of rice, and both forms are used to make risotto.
Here are some recipe books and cookbooks for
Italian food:
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By Valentina Harris
MQ Publications Ltd Hardcover (332 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Celebrity chef Valentina Harris makes traditional Italian cooking easy. Over 100 authentic Italian recipes have been simplified for the contemporary kitchen - piquant ragus with fresh pasta, nutty risottos, succulent meat and poultry dishes, aromatic fish and creamy deserts. Her instructions cover all the techniques necessary to master Italian cooking, from rolling fresh pasta, perfect polenta and non-sticky gnocchi, notes on cleaning and boning fish and how to pick the choicest ingredients. An engaging raconteur she enriches her recipes with fascinating food facts and anecdotes from her store of childhood memories of the family kitchen in Tuscany. Her recipes are beautifully decorated with charming watercolour illustrations. |
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Whitecap Books Paperback (240 pages)
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By Duane Lund
Lund S & R Publishing Perfect Paperback (160 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Italian Food has become an American tradition, and Italian Home Cooking offers nearly 150 authentic family recipes. Savor these incomparable dishes, from snacks and sides to entrees and desserts. These carefully selected recipes have been passed down for generations, so you know you're getting the best recipes! |
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By A. J. Battifarano
Time Life Medical Hardcover (192 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Filled with more than 125 recipes, 200 glorious, full-page photographs, and wonderful narrative vignettes, this rich, seasonal celebration of the Italian countryside is as much a travelogue as it is a cookbook. The authors collect the culinary wisdom of cooks from all parts of Italy, offering in the process a delightful glimpse of the country's culture and ambience. |
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By Susanna Gelmetti
Rosendale Press Hardcover (128 pages)
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By Susanna Gelmetti
Ten Speed Press Paperback
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By Unknown
Kindle Edition
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Click Here | Product Description: You can get 900 More Italian Recipes from this ebook.
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By Jo Bettoja
Bantam Released: 1991-09-01 Hardcover (452 pages)
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Salamander Books Hardcover (96 pages)
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By Mary Cadogan
HP Trade Paperback (80 pages)
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