"Pizza" is a kind of food with Italian flavor, which is made of special cake bottom, cheese, sauce and stuffing. Some people joked that its origin was somewhat influenced by China Pie-I wanted to learn from China and wrapped the stuffing in dough, but it was not properly wrapped, so I got it right and created a "pizza". In fact, Naples, Italy is the birthplace of pizza, which existed in Roman times, but at that time it was just a cake without ingredients. Naples people think that a good pizza is "well-made dough and fresh tomatoes", so it is best to eat tomato pizza in Naples. What is superiority?
According to experts, a good pizza must have four characteristics: fresh crust, good cheese, top-grade pizza sauce and fresh stuffing. The difference between pizza and pizza lies in its taste, but whether it is authentic or not depends on its toughness. Authentic pizza, its crust is not called skin in Italian, but crown. This kind of crown is light and thin, and looks like a simple pancake. The bottom of the cake must be made on site every day. The flour used to make the bottom of the cake is usually ground with first-class wheat in spring and summer, and then fermented with special yeast containing 10, so that the bottom of the cake will be crispy in the outer layer and soft in the inner layer. Pure cheese is the soul of pizza. Authentic pizza generally uses New Zealand mozzarella cheese, which is rich in protein, vitamins, minerals and calcium, but low in calories. Many varieties and specifications
Pizza is generally divided into three sizes according to its size: 6 inches (cut into 4 pieces), 9 inches (cut into 6 pieces), 12 inches (cut into 8 pieces); According to the bottom of the cake, it can be divided into two types: iron plate pizza and borderless pizza; According to the different fillings, there are super supreme, seafood supreme, food world, Hawaiian scenery, spicy selection, cheese conference and so on.
Pizza is dotted with snacks.
"Pizza" is often dotted with other snacks, such as cream chicken and mushroom soup, New Orleans chicken wings, potato chips, buffet salad, summer special drinks and so on.
How to eat pizza
The way to eat pizza is very consistent with "leisure" dining. You can savor it with a knife and fork, but if you casually put a delicious pizza in your mouth with mozzarella cheese, the taste will be different. It is worth noting that it tastes best when ready to eat. According to international practice, pizza should be delivered to customers within 30 minutes after baking. In Naples, the hometown of pizza, the most traditional way of eating is still maintained. Instead of sharing and dividing, the cake is folded into a cone. It looks like a grinning China pie. In fact, the most important thing to eat Italian pizza is to eat the cake below, and the filling on it is just for seasoning.
Pizza and Italy
Whether you use tomatoes or ham, vegetables or other seasonings, the toppings of pizza always come in three colors: red, green and white (cheese). This is the color of the Italian flag and the idea of Queen Margarita II. In order to get authentic pizza, she still likes to order it from outside the palace. This is the beginning of the tradition of delivering pizza.
The origin of hamburgers
How did Hamburg, known as one of the five western fast food, originate?
The original hamburger was a meat pie made of ground beef and flour, so it was called beef patties. In ancient times, Tatars had the habit of eating beef raw. The Tatars moved westward, first to the Balkans and then to Germany, and gradually changed raw food into cooked food. People in Hamburg, Germany, improved it by kneading chopped beef sauce in flour, spreading it into cakes, frying it and eating it, so they named it "hamburger patties" after the name of the place. From 65438 to 0850, German immigrants brought the cooking technology of hamburger patties to the United States. Later, it was renovated and gradually integrated with sandwiches, and the beef patties were sandwiched in buns cut in half, which were called "hamburgers".
Egg tart, known as the egg tower in Taiwan Province Province, is a transliteration of English "tart", which means a pie with exposed stuffing (pie pie, whose reverse side is covered with pie skin and sealed with stuffing); Egg tarts are eggs ... Authentic egg tarts in Hong Kong are classified by skin, which are mainly divided into butter egg tarts and pastry egg tarts: the skin of butter egg tarts is smooth. ...
What is the symbol of Italy? The tourists' answers are really surprising. It is neither Italian fashion nor Michelangelo, nor Ferrari sports car, but spaghetti.
Various health foods
Long, round, flat, spiral, eggs dyed yellow, spinach dyed green, cuttlefish dyed crimson, filled with cheese ... What can have many imaginative shapes and rich nutritional value? That is the symbol of Italian cooking art for centuries: spaghetti.
Add some olive oil, tomatoes, tuna or ground beef and make a salad or eat it alone. Spaghetti is always mouth watering. The cooking methods of spaghetti are simple but varied, which can be used to make light home cooking and also appear in the special menu of high-end restaurants. Most importantly, both the World Health Organization and many nutritionists are full of praise for the high nutrition and low calorie characteristics of spaghetti.
According to research, spaghetti contains a lot of carbohydrates, protein and vitamins, which can effectively reduce the accumulation of cholesterol in human body and improve coronary artery. At the same time, it is also very suitable for athletes as pre-competition food, which will not increase the burden on digestive organs, but also save enough energy. Why spaghetti can become the representative of Italian cuisine, do you need to give more reasons to explain it?
According to the statistics of the spaghetti industry federation, the annual output of spaghetti in the world has reached100000 tons. About 200,000 tons of them are produced in Spain. In Italy, everyone eats 28 kilograms of noodles every year.
A legendary story full of fun.
Historians have never been able to agree on the origin of spaghetti. Some people think that spaghetti was brought to Italy by Kyle Polo from China. It is also believed that as early as the 7th century BC, the Serus people living in northern Italy began to make noodles. The site of Serus Khan discovered in Tuscany in the 4th century BC is the best proof. Among the unearthed cultural relics, people found a big wooden table for mixing noodles and kitchen utensils that must be used when cooking noodles. It can be seen from these utensils that the Serus people at that time had begun to make noodles of various shapes. In any case, spaghetti has a long history and has been continuously improved during thousands of years of evolution.
There is also evidence that after Octavian became Caesar of ancient Rome, the population of Rome has reached 6.5438+0.5 million. For the Roman government, ensuring the food supply of many citizens became a serious problem. So, people at that time came up with a new way to preserve flour. Flour is first made into dough, and then the dough is cut into noodles with a knife. This kind of noodles can be stored for at least one year after drying. Therefore, dried noodles are very popular among Italians. However, at that time, the people who ate dried noodles were ordinary people, and the nobles and the rich still ate freshly cooked noodles at home. It was not until the19th century that dry pasta became a table delicacy in all European countries.
Since then, macaroni (a kind of spaghetti) has kept its name in history. 1279, a soldier in Genoa mentioned "a small wooden barrel filled with noodles" in his will. /kloc-A comedy in the 6th century in which a Neapolitan said, "Eat your macaroni!" To celebrate the victory of the campaign, garibaldi, the hero of the Italian national unification movement, rewarded the famous red shirts with tuna noodles with olive oil. Even the mighty Napoleon used spaghetti to boost the morale of the exhausted army. Even the fork we use every day is said to have been invented for the convenience of eating spaghetti.
History has proved that a special pasta recipe appeared in Sicily in 1000. 1 150 years, hundreds of ships in Palermo, Sicily, were loaded with spaghetti every week and sailed for all countries in the world. King Ferdinand II of Naples (1467- 1496) ordered machines to replace human feet to make dough. 1740, the first spaghetti factory was built in Venice. /kloc-in 0/800, people began to add tomatoes to pasta, which immediately became a popular delicacy.
Recently, the Italian authorities conducted a survey to find out what the symbol of Italy is in the eyes of tourists. The answer is really surprising. It is neither Italian fashion nor Michelangelo, nor Ferrari sports car, but spaghetti. Indeed, the production of spaghetti is a real art, and ordinary wheat changes into various shapes in the hands of chefs. According to statistics, as early as19th century, there were more than 200 different shapes of spaghetti.
Unique and strict quality of raw materials
In order to maintain and improve the quality of spaghetti, noodle manufacturers, trade unions, raw material suppliers, research institutions and researchers will hold regular gatherings to study the situation of spaghetti in kitchens almost all over the world. More than 350 experts from 27 countries attended the recent World Spaghetti Congress. They care about the same thing: how to meet the increasingly critical needs of consumers.
The key problem to maintain the quality of spaghetti is raw materials. Italy has a high demand for raw materials, so it must use hard wheat with high protein content. However, with the growth of the world population and the increasing demand for pasta, there is an increasing shortage of high-quality wheat that can be used as raw materials. In addition, some countries do not produce wheat suitable for pasta, and they do not have enough economic ability to import raw materials. Sometimes it is inevitable that high-quality wheat will be mixed with inferior raw materials to make pasta. This poses a threat to the reputation of pasta.
"spaghetti manufacturers all over the world must shoulder the responsibility of maintaining the traditional quality of spaghetti. Help consumers understand the quality of pasta, while ensuring the value of products and applying the most advanced technology to their own production. " This is the consensus of many experts.
So what should be called spaghetti? Experts can tell the quality of noodles at a glance, while ordinary people don't have to taste them themselves. Authentic pasta must be smooth in appearance and chewy in taste. Not sticky or sticky after eating. Chew a few mouthfuls, and your mouth should be full of the unique sweetness of spaghetti. If so, then take the time to enjoy it. You know, the best pasta must be eaten while it is hot, and the most wonderful taste only appears at the most appropriate moment. [article number 10 Spanish "fun" monthly] (by Marianne benito)