Cultural Foods and Catering Italy

Preface:

Though there’s no single fame bearer for Italy. The charm of the Italy starts from its language, Italian, which is spoke by about 80 million Europeans. Italy is known for hundreds of its specialties, such as, catering and dishes, sports cars, deserts, river cruises, caves and much more. Love pizza? Italians invent it, want to ride Ferrari? Makers are Italians, must heard about fashion of Milan and fantasies of Venice too, and last but not least, the vineyards of Italy – Italy is called the Vine Paradise of the World. This will be a never ending talk to list the specialisms ofItaly but this is not the motive of this article. So, we will cut to the chase, our topic of discussion is the catering of Italy.

Catering Italy:

The catering and cooking culture in Italy is as old as Italy itself is. According to the researchers, some of the Italian food recipes have roots even from pre-Italian era and that’s the reason why Italian foods and catering culture is so diverse and well-known. Even if you have just Italian pasta, you can go straight for two years without a problem because there are more than six hundred and fifty varying types of Italian pasta. You must have heard about a saying, “Quantity disturbs quality!” Well it’s not really true in case of Italian food. No matter how much variety there is, every single dish will be a finger-licking impact on you.

History of Italian Foods:

The history of Italian foods and dishes starts back from 4th Century B.C. Since then, countless ups and downs, such as, fall of the Roman Empire, political instability, travelers, conquerors, neighboring colonies etc. have highly diversified the food culture of the present Italy. The fall of the Roman Empire was a real great breakthrough for Italian foods. After the empire broke, people fell out, and a lot of new experiments were made in food like all other disciplines of life. Different tryouts were made on bread and pasta especially. After the fall of empire, regions were separated and each region came with its specialty, such as, Northern Italy was famous for its rissotos, Central Italy for tortellini and southern part came up with its delicious pizza recipes .

Famous Italian Dishes:

Antipasto:

Antipasto means in English, “before serving the meal” so it is an appetizer. Here are some of the traditional dishes that can be served as Antipasto:

•    InsalataCaprese

•    Grilled Vegetable Salad

•    Margherita Pizza

•    Simple Ricotta Antipasto

•    Potato Croquette

Primo :The first progression of the meal is called primo. The first meal dish can be pasta, soup, gnocchi, etc.

Here are some of the recipes which can be tried out as primo.

•    Porcini Soup

•    Clam Soup

•    Cannellini and Pancetta Soup

•    Acquacotta

•    Pasta with Winter Squash and Tomatoes

•    Pasta with Prosciutto and Lettuce

•    Pasta with Beans and Mussels

•    Zesty Spaghetti a la Puttanesca

•    Conghilie with Clams and Mussels

•    Fettuccine with Artichokes

•    Pappa Al Pomodoro

Secondo :Secondo is a small serving of grilled meat or fish and is usually served without sauce.

Dolce :    Dolce means, “Sweet” in English. Meal is finished with some sweet-dish – Dolce. It can be some fruit, cakes, biscotti, or a fruit pie.