‘The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you’re hungry again’
George Miller
Appetizers table with italian antipasti snacks.
Ofcourse the Italians always start with antipasti, which is an ‘appetizer’ in English. What they also eat a lot before really starting with all of the other foods, is a ‘pizza bianca’ or ‘focaccia’, it actually is pizza dough with fresh herbs such as thyme and rosemary. They finish it with dried tomatoes, arugula and salt.
Then as a starter they eat varied things such as ‘prosciutto di Parma con melone’, it is Parma ham with orange melon. Another example, well, actually all sorts of pasta. It can be farfalle (butterfly), fusill (spiral), macaroni, linguine … and to be honest I really love all of them!
As a main dish for Italians, well ofcourse pasta comes back. But you still have hundreds of other dishes which are all amazing. Risotto is one of my favorites, it is rise baked in a pan, and later mixed with broth of whatever you like, it can be of vegetables, meat, fish… And how can I make a foodblog about Italian food without mentioning pizza?
- Serena
