Italian former Food

Italian former food is known for its astonishing recipes and wines, but often an important side of it is underground or even unseen.

This side is what eating means for Italians. It's not just eating, it means much more.

Traditional Food

If you happen in a major Italian city you may find some shops with continued opening time. But the most close from 1 to 4.30pm. Italians do stop for lunch.

Life has changed in Italy too, not allowing everybody to go home for lunch and maybe take even a rest. But most communal offices close at 2.00pm and the ones that work from 9 to 5 have lunch time, where people go to restaurants and have a real meal.

I went to meet a friend who works in a bank office in Rome and we had lunch together. She suggested a small familiar restaurant (trattoria) where I ate astonishing potato gnocchi and unforgettable artichokes with potatoes). A real lunch, that is maybe served in luxury Italian restaurants abroad, eaten during a lunch break from job.

This idea lead to an additional one inspiring fact about restaurants in Italy and Italian restaurants abroad.

Usually, the Italian restaurants abroad are good and sometimes luxury restaurants. Very well decorated and often a very pleasant environment, many times tied to community fashions.

In Italy, the luxury and the "environment" are secondary. Often an Italian friend takes you to a very good restaurant, and it looks too poorly decorated. Don't worry, he cares about you, because...you eat astonishing food, and that's the important thing for your friend.

He does not think about taking you to a fashionable place where food is not good. He would fail towards you, and for an Italian, it hurts.

There are so many restaurants in Italy that are quadrilateral spoiled rooms that are surely not inviting...but their food is wonderful. They just don't consider the decoration, but what you're going to eat.

In Italy go out to have dinner is also a communal program, as all nearby the world. But what you eat has a stronger role in the whole evening.

Among other cultures, the food may be medium, and people talk about other things and have a good evening.

In Italy, may be the most enjoyable people, but if the food is not good, they will feel like the evening was a dinky bit wasted for that. They will talk about it, comment it, showing that the food isn't merely part of the evening, but quite the main attraction.

Another side of tradition with regard to Italian food regards eating at distinct times, following a established order in eating (never eat a meat dish before the pasta one, for example), and some other small but gift rules.

Concerning time, Italians have lunch from 1.00pm to 2.00pm. Most restaurants close at 2.30 pm. It's frustrating for a traveler visiting Rome, for example, to find the restaurant terminated at 3pm.

Now some restaurants are contribution different scheduled times, but these are the traveler restaurants, not the good ones. These keep pasta cooked and re-warm it. It's better not to trust them if you desire a good Italian homemade dish.

A former Italian meal begins with the antipasto (which means before the meal). Commonly it's "from land"(di terra) or "from sea" (di mare). Those from land are Commonly Italian cold cuts, olives, cheese and so on. Those from sea are seafood salad and similar.

After the antipasto comes the first dish, that can be pasta, soup or rice (risotto). After then there's the second, when you can select in the middle of meat and fish. It's valuable to add a side, because in Italy they are not included. If you ask for a steak, it will come by itself, with no French fries or salad.

After that, you can eat fruit and a dessert. Then a good coffee and a liquor called "ammazza caffe" (kill the coffee). It can vary in the middle of many choices, being the more used nowadays the lemon liquor (limoncello) and grappa.

At this point, your Italian friend looks satisfied. He will probably rest his shoulders on the back of the chair and take a long breath. After a exquisite meal, these few minutes just enjoying it all are surely needed.

Italian former Food

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