What are Italian Food customs?

Question

it is for a hospitality assignment

Answer 1

10-20 different fish dishes on Christmas Eve!  And this:

http://goitaly.about.com/od/foodandwineo...

Answer 2

Regional and fresh ingredients. Lots of info and recipes on the internet. Start looking, andiamo.

Answer 3

Hope this helps for starters........

+ Unless the person who is serving insists = No one eats until everyone is seated.

+ Salad is eaten last

+ There are (almost always) two (or more) courses: pasta and a meat or fish dish and a vegetable.

+ The different courses are always served on a new clean dish... what I mean is that Italians, unlike Americans, never put different courses together and on the same dish.

+ There is always a fruit and or a cheese at the end of a meal

+ You never drink milk with your meal... unless you are a child.

+ There is almost always wine on the dinner table.

+ You never put grated cheese on a pasta dish containing sea food.

+ Fork in left hand, knife in right... and you always eat with your fork in your left hand. You never switch after you've cut something.

+ The fork is not held like a baseball bat

+ Cloth napkins are usually used at home (saves on paper and keeps the environment clean!)

+ No TV on when eating

+ No bread eaten with the pasta.... and if you must clean your plate with bread then break off a piece of bread and stab it with your fork and then wipe the plate.

+ Bread - break off pieces of bread to put into your mouth. DON'T bring the loaf to your mouth to bite off a piece.

Answer 4

-Use fresh ingredients

-no eating until everyone else is served

-no Tv on

idk...