Do Italians in Italy have Hummus on the Menu?

Question

do Italians in Italy have Hummus on the Menu?

Is the whole menu in Italian?

all the meat and dairy is hormone free correct?

10 pts

Answer 1

Sure, if you went to an Arabic or Middle Eastern restaurant in Italy.

The menu would most likely be written in Italian

Most likely, it would be hormone free meat & dairy (depends).

ITALIAN AMERICAN CUISINE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian-Ame...

Answer 2

In big cities such as Rome, you will find ethnic restaurants and there you will be able to find just about anything you are looking for. I do believe that the meats are still hormone free since Italy is one of those countries that FRESH is the way of life. They frown upon chemicals and hormones and believe in keeping food and life style as natural as possible. Hope this helps you!

Answer 3

A FEW MAY BUT PASTA IS KING

Answer 4

hummus is not an Italian food.

Answer 5

i was in italy two years ago and was in several different regions-rome, naples, florence, capri...never saw hoummus on the menu. and italian food in italy is pretty much nothing like italian food in america. we americanize everything here.

Answer 6

I can just confirm what said by other users:

in Italy you can find hummus, but mostly in ethnic restaurants; menus on big cities and holiday resorts are almost always at least in Italian and English, very often in further languages as well (be careful sometimes the same menu is multilanguage while sometimes they may have different papers for each language, so if you see a menu in Italian only, ask the waiter if they have one in your language as well); on smaller towns or area of touristic interest you could find menus in Italian only.

In all European Union anabolic steroids and cortisone are forbidden by law; antibiotics can be used but there are limits about the residual you can find on the meat.

Hormones that stimulate the growing of livestocks are illegal in EU since 1988, in Italy since 1961.

Italian food made in America and Italian food made in Italy are completely different; Americanized food usually is usually more elaborated with more (or usually LOT more) ingredients, and usually also contain a bigger amount of fat (often saturated); when somebody says "Italian food is grease" should be aware that's true just for Italian-American food.

A typical example is pizza: Italian pizza have a thin crust (flour, salt, yeast and nothing else), plain meshed tomatoes, or a puree (not a sauce) with few further ingredients; the most popular is Pizza Margherita, which have mozzarella, other usually have one or two more ingredients (olives, mushrooms, ...); and be careful about Italian names used in the US! "Peperoni" in Italian are pepper (capsicum), while "latte" is plain milk.

Answer 7

Ummmm, not so much..you may be in the wrong country.

Answer 8

I do not think so as I associate it with the asian part of the mediterranean cuisine.

Answer 9

I'm Italian and today I hear the word "Hummus", for the first time.

No: it's not Italian dishes.

About difference: I never was in USA but I think Americans use more spices, more dressing, more garlic.

In Italy the food is more simple than you thinks.

Answer 10

Menus in large restuarants, large cities are in English as well as Italian.

Small ones may not have English.

Hummus ia not served in native Italian resturants.

IDK about meats being hormone free.

They used to be, but I remember an article in a magazine.  

A veternarian convention was in the hotel.

Hormones were being considered.  1980s.

Don't know now.