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Italy is one of the countries of Mediterranean diet as Italian food is based on seasonal fresh produce. It is one of the healthiest foods in the world. Horace, a Romance poet commented in 100BC that Italy was just about one big orchard because the climate is very suited to fruit trees like apricots peaches, plums, pears and so on. It is equally favorable to vegetables and nuts such as the cardoon, artichoke and the aubergine that is usually a fruit like tomato.
Tomato grows very well in Italy, particularly in the Southern region of Calabria. Whenever people talk of Italian food, some limit their thinking to only ubiquitous pizza and pasta which are very good Italian foods.
However, these foods are not what the regional Italian food is all about. Pasta is surely a staple and cannot get any food better than ravioli stuffed with seafood or seasonal vegetables. This type of Italian food is cherished by all the Italians and the food do extremely well when it comes to dishes with cotopus, baby clams, fish and of course squid.
Italian food is a way of life in a nation where friendship, family, and feasts are all permanently allied. Italian food is vibrant, simple, good and more than a form of nourishment. Italian food is popular, greatly loved, highly famed and tirelessly imitated all over the world.
Italian cooking depends on the use of unsullied components and aromatic plants rather than basil with tomato sauce and spices.
There is the pesto which is also an Italian food and it is a blend of fresh basils and pine nuts with olive oil, that makes a pleasant mortadella, but this is not considered to be the best of Italian meat products while it is very difficult to beat good Salami and the pastrami that are equally wonderful.
Risottos one prepared with Italian wine or champagne flavored with truffles and many other mushrooms in winter. There is also the truffle and mushroom festival which is meant for all different types of produce, plus wild boar and tomato. If you are on vacation in Italy, the food festivals are most attend as you will get the best of region’s cooking and environment is a genuine holiday once in a while you will experience a truly gastronomic delight.
Equally, there are roasted chest nuts, special platters of cold cooked meats, goose and cheeses with different conserves that compliment these platters tremendously well.
Therefore, try out the real Italian food by visiting your local Italian restaurant or by going on holiday to Italy.