So... I want to know a little more about food in Italy..?

Question

I've got a few questions actually about foods in Italy.

Does any one know what foods are commonly eaten in Italy?

For Lasagne, usualy what time would they serve the dish in Italy? What utensils and equipments do they use to make it?

Answer 1

Does any one know what foods are commonly eaten in Italy?

We common eat pasta, pizzas ad fist dish, than meat and fish for second dish with vedetables, then fruits and sweets.

For Lasagne, usualy what time would they serve the dish in Italy?

For fist dish

What utensils and equipments do they use to make it?

We made spliced pasta by hand made (it's the best) or we buy in supermarket !

Answer 2

when i was there a gentleman made a lasagne type meal that was butternut squash, sage, and chestnut pasta...Lord it was good...but they only used ricotta and pecorino cheese...no mozzerella like the Italian Americans....most Italians use the products grown in their regions..so some areas you see rissoto more prevalent....over hear you have more polenta...over here fresh pasta...and if theirs an olive oil farm near by...you can bet theres alot of oil based sauces!!! and we had a type of snack in the late afternoon...every one in the town came out for a walk at around 7pm...was weird to see as an American...just poured out of there houses into the streets and strolled and chatted..then back home for dinner around 9pm.......its nothing you would belive till you see it...beautiful with beautiful food!!!!

Answer 3

Many non-Italians identify Italian cooking with a few of its most popular dishes, like pizza and spaghetti. People often express the opinion that Italian cooking is all pretty much alike. However, those who travel through Italy notice differences in eating habits between cities, even those only a few miles apart. Not only does each region have its own style, but each community and each valley has a different way of cooking as well. Every town has a distinctive way of making sausage, special kinds of cheese and wine, and a local type of bread. If you ask people, even in the same area, how to make pasta sauce, they will all have different answers.

Variations in the omnipresent pasta are another example of the multiplicity of Italian recipes: soft egg noodles in the north, hard-boiled spaghetti in the south, with every conceivable variation in size and shape. Perhaps no other country in the world has a cooking style so finely fragmented into different divisions. So why is Risotto typical of Milan, why did Tortellini originate in Bologna, and why is Pizza so popular in Naples?

This is so for the same reason that Italy has only one unifying Italian language, yet hundreds of different spoken dialects. Italy is a country of great variety, and cooking is just another aspect of the diversity of Italian culture.

This diversity stems largely from peasant heritage and geographical differences. Italy is a peninsula separated from the rest of the continent by the highest chain of mountains in Europe. In addition, a long spine of mountains runs north to south down through this narrow country. These geographic features create a myriad of environments with noticeable variations: fertile valleys, mountains covered with forests, cool foothills, naked rocks, Mediterranean coastlines, and arid plains. A great variety of different climates have also created innumerable unique geographical and historical areas.

But geographical fragmentation alone will not explain how the same country produced all of these: the rich, fat, baroque food of Bologna, based on butter, parmigiano, and meat; the light, tasty, spicy cooking of Naples, mainly based on olive oil, mozzarella, and seafood; the cuisine of Rome, rich in produce from the surrounding countryside; and the food of Sicily, full of North African influences.

The explanation is hidden in the past; the multitudes of food styles of Italy mainly result from its history. Divided for a long time into many duchies, princedoms, kingdoms, and states—often hostile to one another—political unification in Italy did not occur until 1861. Many populations in the past three thousand years have occupied Italian territory, and most of them contributed their own traditions. And the original people, the Etruscans and Greeks, left influences still felt today.

Local traditions result from long complex historical developments and strongly influence local habits. Distinctive cultural and social differences remain present throughout Italy, although today mass marketing tends to cause a leveling of long-established values. In a country so diverse, it is impossible to define an “Italian” cooking style, but traditional food still is at the core of the cultural identity of each region, and Italians react with attachment to their own identity when they are confronted with the tendency toward flattening their culture.

Answer 4

eaten any time of the day and the prepare it with hands and a ladle.

Answer 5

Food in Italy is regional.  It is very different from north to south, and from region to region.  What region are you interested in?

Lasagna is NOT the name of a dish.  Lasagna (plural = lasagne)is merely a flat sheet of pasta.  It can be made into a dish with any of a number of different sauces -- meat, vegetable, seafood, etc.  What kind of sauce are you interested in knowing about?

Answer 6

I think its safe to say lots of garden vegetables, and lots of seafood, lots of olive oil and cheese, lots of pasta, good bread and great wine : ) all the good things!!!

Answer 7

Well,

Lasagne for dinner are super, usually we have dinner between 7.30 pm (above all in North Italy) and 21.00 pm. or more (for the South).

If you want to cook Lasagne, you need a pan for oven - bake and... Lasagne, besciamella (white sauce) and ragout sauce (this is the traditional recipe)!

Some traditional Italian Food:

pasta alla carbonara

pasta all'amatriciana

pasta al pesto

risotto alla milanese

scaloppine di carne al vino bianco

melanzane alla parmigiana

torta pasqualina

polenta

and more and more and more...

Please, forgive my english, I do not speak it from a lot!

Bye bye!

Answer 8

pasta  and piza