Traditional Italian cuisine is known for its recipes and wonderful wines, but often an important part of it is hidden or invisible.
This side is that means eating for Italians. It is not just about eating, it means much more.
If by chance in a major Italian city you can find some shops with continuous opening time. But the closer to 1 at 16:30. The Italians do not stop for lunch.
Life has changed in Italy, not allowing everyone to go home for lunch and maybe even take a break. But most public offices close at 14:00 and the working of 9-5 have lunch, where people go to a restaurant and enjoy a real meal.
I went to meet a friend who works in a bank office in Rome and had lunch together. She suggested a small family restaurant (trattoria) where I ate wonderful potato gnocchi and unforgettable artichokes with potatoes). A real breakfast, which can be used in the luxury Italian restaurants abroad, eaten during a working lunch.
This idea leads to another interesting fact about restaurants in Italy and Italian restaurants abroad.
Usually, Italian restaurants abroad are good and sometimes fancy restaurants. Very nice atmosphere, often related to the modes of the very well decorated and often company.
In Italy, luxury and "environment" are secondary. Often, an Italian friend who takes a good restaurant, and seems too poorly decorated.
Do not worry, that cares about you because ... you eat wonderful food, and that is important for your friend.
He does not believe that will lead to a trendy place where the food is not good. Do not allow to you, and by an Italian, it hurts.
There are many restaurants in Italy that are square spoiled rooms that are cozy ... but their food is wonderful. They do not consider the decor, but what they eat.
In Italy, dining out is also a social program, as elsewhere in the world. But what you eat has a more important role at night.
Other crops, food can be average, and people talk about other things and have a good evening.
Italy, perhaps the nicest people, but if the food is not good, it feels when the night was a bit lost for it. They'll talk about it in the comments, demonstrating that the food is not only part of the night, but pretty main attraction.
Another aspect of the tradition of Italian cuisine with respect to certain hours, following an established order in eating (never eat pasta before a meat dish, for example), and some other small but these rules.
With respect to time, the Italians have lunch 13.00-14.00. Most restaurants close at 14:30. It is frustrating for a tourist visiting Rome, for example, to find the closes at 15-hour restaurant.
Some restaurants now offer several regular times, but these are the restaurants for tourists, not good. These keep the cooked pasta and reheating.
It is best not to rely on them if you want good Italian home plate.
A traditional Italian meal begins with antipasti (meaning that before the meal). Usually it's "Earth" (di terra) or "sea" (di mare).
The land are usually Italian meats, olives, cheese and so on. The sea are seafood salad and the like.
After the antipasto is the starter, which can be pasta, soup or rice (risotto). Then there is also the second, when you can choose between meat and fish. It is necessary to add a part, because in Italy are not included. If you order a steak, which will come by itself without fries or salad.
After that, you can eat fruit and dessert. So good coffee and a liquor called "Ammazza caffe" (killing coffee). It can vary between many options these days, is the most widely used lemon liquor (limoncello) and grappa.
At this stage, his Italian friend seems satisfied. Probably going to rest your shoulders on the back of the chair and take a deep breath. After a perfect meal, these few minutes just enjoying all this certainly need.
This side is that means eating for Italians. It is not just about eating, it means much more.
If by chance in a major Italian city you can find some shops with continuous opening time. But the closer to 1 at 16:30. The Italians do not stop for lunch.
Life has changed in Italy, not allowing everyone to go home for lunch and maybe even take a break. But most public offices close at 14:00 and the working of 9-5 have lunch, where people go to a restaurant and enjoy a real meal.
I went to meet a friend who works in a bank office in Rome and had lunch together. She suggested a small family restaurant (trattoria) where I ate wonderful potato gnocchi and unforgettable artichokes with potatoes). A real breakfast, which can be used in the luxury Italian restaurants abroad, eaten during a working lunch.
This idea leads to another interesting fact about restaurants in Italy and Italian restaurants abroad.
Usually, Italian restaurants abroad are good and sometimes fancy restaurants. Very nice atmosphere, often related to the modes of the very well decorated and often company.
In Italy, luxury and "environment" are secondary. Often, an Italian friend who takes a good restaurant, and seems too poorly decorated.
Do not worry, that cares about you because ... you eat wonderful food, and that is important for your friend.
He does not believe that will lead to a trendy place where the food is not good. Do not allow to you, and by an Italian, it hurts.
There are many restaurants in Italy that are square spoiled rooms that are cozy ... but their food is wonderful. They do not consider the decor, but what they eat.
In Italy, dining out is also a social program, as elsewhere in the world. But what you eat has a more important role at night.
Other crops, food can be average, and people talk about other things and have a good evening.
Italy, perhaps the nicest people, but if the food is not good, it feels when the night was a bit lost for it. They'll talk about it in the comments, demonstrating that the food is not only part of the night, but pretty main attraction.
Another aspect of the tradition of Italian cuisine with respect to certain hours, following an established order in eating (never eat pasta before a meat dish, for example), and some other small but these rules.
With respect to time, the Italians have lunch 13.00-14.00. Most restaurants close at 14:30. It is frustrating for a tourist visiting Rome, for example, to find the closes at 15-hour restaurant.
Some restaurants now offer several regular times, but these are the restaurants for tourists, not good. These keep the cooked pasta and reheating.
It is best not to rely on them if you want good Italian home plate.
A traditional Italian meal begins with antipasti (meaning that before the meal). Usually it's "Earth" (di terra) or "sea" (di mare).
The land are usually Italian meats, olives, cheese and so on. The sea are seafood salad and the like.
After the antipasto is the starter, which can be pasta, soup or rice (risotto). Then there is also the second, when you can choose between meat and fish. It is necessary to add a part, because in Italy are not included. If you order a steak, which will come by itself without fries or salad.
After that, you can eat fruit and dessert. So good coffee and a liquor called "Ammazza caffe" (killing coffee). It can vary between many options these days, is the most widely used lemon liquor (limoncello) and grappa.
At this stage, his Italian friend seems satisfied. Probably going to rest your shoulders on the back of the chair and take a deep breath. After a perfect meal, these few minutes just enjoying all this certainly need.
