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Food in Italy: Italian cooking and dining from your villa or apartment

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

If you rented a villa or an apartment in Italy, you will probably try to taste all food from Italy, can you – the dining room and eating customs here is a quick and easy on the food in Italy, if you This is your first meal in the Italian restaurant, magnificent on the road or to purchase products on the local market to make your own authentic Italian food.

Shopping <b> Italian Food </ b>
One of the greatest joys of renting an Italian villa or apartment is the shopping for the products at an outdoor market. Almost all cities in Italy have an outdoor market, usually once a week (ask to know on what day). But regardless of whether you are in a market, a small grocery store or a supermarket, there is only one rule to consider when buying food in Italy: DO NOT TOUCH the product. We are quite used to dealing with our apples and oranges in the U.S., but in Italy, it will be very hard!

In an outdoor market, you must use the fruits or vegetables that you need, and the seller the choice of the best items for you. Try not to say that you do not, for example, want a little lemon – the gathering of food is an honor for the seller, and the rejection of his choice is an insult! Another thing to note about the opening of markets in Italy, is that there are no negotiations. In Italy, a price is a price.

In a small grocery store, you can still not touch products (no matter how you like)! By contrast, an employee is expected to help. Please indicate your choice and the staff for the selection of the product and turn it into a bag.

If you really need control over your output choice, try a large supermarket: Here, you with gloves made of plastic, so you can pick your own fruit and vegetables! Each piece of baggage weighing and pressure of a button for that question, after a machine is that you have a sticker on the bag before sending it to the cashier.

Another great place for traditional Italian dishes is a delicatessen. There are no rules here (although you have to “a number” or wait online). Pick up delicious marinated meats, prepared olives, artichokes, salads, grilled peppers, fresh mozzarella, and everything you have given it a full service deli-American – only better!

Here you will find a list of delicious foods in Italy:

- <i> Pane </ i> (bread, freshly made morning!)
- Aceto <i> </ i> (Vinegar: Balsamic vinegar or wine)
- <i> Aglio </ i> (garlic)
- <i> Basilico </ i> (basil)
- <i> Olio di Ulivi </ i> (olive oil)
- <i> Limoni </ i> (lemons)
- <i> Pomodori </ i> (tomato)
- <i> Capperi </ i> (Capers)
- <i> Porcini </ i> (fungi)
- Other vegetables: potatoes, onions, carrots, beans, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, and the rest!
- <i> Tonno </ i> (with canned tuna)
- <i> Uova </ i> (eggs)
- <i> Frutta </ i> (fruit)
- <i> Pollo </ i> (chicken)
- <i> Vino </ i> (wine)

<b> Italian Kitchen – Recipes </ b>
What is better than the kitchen, in Italy, with all these delicious fresh ingredients? Here are a few recipes of Italian cuisine, just to take you to your house. If this is good old favorites, and then eat the experience to see if you copy the recipe.

1. Tortellini in Brodo <i> Petti di Pollo con: </ i> you add the broth and tortellini with metal, chopped, with chicken, and vegetables. With Parmesan <i> local </ i> cheese, salad, bread and local authorities.

2. Pasta Pomodori al <i>: </ i> If not, known as spaghetti, is delicious with Italian ingredients! Buy pasta on the market, the sauce from the heat (or do), mixed with garlic and basil, and add a can of drained tuna, olives, artichokes or hearts. With parmesan, <i> Insalata mista </ i> (salad) and bread.

3. Minestrone <i>: </ i> skip onion and garlic in oil. Add broth, bring to a boil and the vegetables (carrots, zucchini, peppers, etc.). Shortly before the vegetables cooked, add noodles and spinach. Seasoning with herbs of your choice.

Italian Restaurants <b> Customs </ b>
If you go to eat in Italy, do not forget this: Italy is a food culture! If you are looking for fine Italian food, it will not be fast. The meals are a social event, to be loved, a delicious range. Let us begin with the course in the following order:

1. <i> Primi </ i> – A pasta dish
2. Secondo <i> </ i> – The main course: meat or fish. This course Mai also <i> contorno, </ i> or judicial measures, which are usually of vegetables.
3. <i> Fromaggio </ i> – Cheese
4. <i> Frutta </ i> – Fruit
5. <i> Dolce </ i> – A mild
6. <i> Café </ i> – After dinner, especially coffee, wine, liqueurs and digestive disorders.

Also note that the restaurant in question, while 3, 4 and 5 May be eliminated or condensed milk (eg cheese offered May).

There are no rigid rules to eat Italian, but there are two things you remember. Upon receipt of a menu with five or six, for many Americans think, as stated in the order of an element of the course. That is not the case! It is entirely in the magnitude of a first, third and fifth course, if it is everything you want.

If you place an order, all at once, at the beginning. Not the first, eat, and then <i> </ i> you tell them the second! The exceptions are the desserts and coffee, at the end of the meal, your server must give you the choice of restaurants.

<b> Eating in Italy </ b>
Whether you’re in a restaurant or Italian cooking your own meals, have fun! If you accidentally tap this piece of fruit, you have to say <i> “Mi dispiace!” </ I> And if the second appears hours to reach, sit, relax and have a good discussion with you. It is <i> la bella vita – </ i> to use while it lasts.