Boot-shaped land makes South and North Italy with different climate and topography have their own unique cooking styles. Showing hospitality and friendliness at the dinner table is the biggest feature of Italian food.

What's on the menu

A formal traditional Italian dinner usually has four or five courses. In addition to choosing from the menu, you can also refer to the regularly updated package menu. Although there are fewer choices (about three choices for each dish), the amount of feces will be less than that of casual phone calls.

Head intervertebral disc

In Italian, appetizer means "before eating". Can be divided into cold dishes (such as ham sausage, salad or vinegar pickles, etc.). ) and hot dishes (fried and fried dishes such as fried squid, etc. ) the first dish can also be a mixed dish (Misto), that is, the combination of the first dish with less weight but more choices.

Lower file pattern

Mainly refers to Zuppe, spaghetti or risotto, Italian is Primo Pratto. Since there is a main course after that, the portion will be smaller.

The second course/main course

It is the soul of the whole dinner, mainly seafood or meat dishes. Caicai flavor is cooked by barbecue or frying, and you can add salt or olive oil to the table at will.

dessert

How can a menu without dessert be perfect? The Italian dessert Dlolce itself means "sweet". Usually after the main course.

Ordering method

It's basically an appetizer, then pasta and main course, and finally dessert. If you have a big appetite, you can order an extra portion of cheese (Formaggi) before eating dessert, or you can choose to share a plate of spaghetti, but you must explain it when ordering.

Italian food dining memorandum

There must be no shortage of bread and olive oil on the table in Italian restaurants. There are all kinds of panes. Usually all kinds of bread are served first, and then appetizers are served. You can put your favorite bread directly on the bread plate with your fingers, or put it on the napkin if there is no plate. When you eat it, you can dip it in olive oil or Italian vinegar (sweet and sour), which is more flavor than eating it with butter.

As we all know, pizza was originally made for the convenience of take-out, which rarely appeared in high-end restaurants, but only appeared in the form of appetizers. Authentic Italian pancakes are thin and crisp, covered only with tomato sauce, cheese, olives or herbs (such as spicy spinach Rucloa). When eating, it is easier to cut them into delicious sizes or roll them up with a knife and fork.

Pasta in Italian cuisine can be described as ever-changing, and it is said that there are more than 300 styles alone. Besides pasta, risotto is also a popular choice for the first course. Stewed meat cooked with cheese and broth is hard and humid. In addition, dumpling is a choice with strong family flavor.

Because the amount of spaghetti is generally not light, in order to avoid leftovers, it is best to share it with others, but you must make a request in advance, and the chef will allocate an appropriate amount to everyone. Putting several kinds of food on a plate by yourself will mix different sauces, which will affect the original taste and respect the chef's behavior.

Vegetarianism is not popular in Italian cuisine. Vegetables mainly play a supporting role in the main course with dishes, but chefs can also be invited when necessary.

After the main course is dessert time. You can order cheese or dessert. Some restaurants will put several kinds of desserts on silver trolleys for you to choose from.

After dessert, you can order drinks, mostly coffee, black tea or Digestivo. You can usually order espresso, but so can milk cappuccino.

After eating in a high-end Italian restaurant, I often have the opportunity to meet and chat with the chef. This is quite common in Italy. Besides their friendly personality, chefs (especially those who are also operators) also want to listen to the opinions of their guests. So if you want to thank the chef after dinner, you can ask the waiter to invite the chef out to talk.

Punctuality is very important when invited to dinner by Italians. Although it is not advisable to arrive early, it is not advisable to arrive late for more than 10 to 15 minutes. It is considered impolite to avoid the whole social time before dinner and arrive at the beginning of the meal.

Italian food characteristics

The Italian peninsula is long and narrow in the north and south, and the climate and geography between the north and the south are very different, resulting in their own cooking characteristics. The north is adjacent to France, and there are many creamy milk dishes, which should be considered heavy and simple to season. In the south, tomato sauce, dried tomatoes, peppers and olive oil are widely used, with strong flavor.

Italian summer recipes mainly focus on seafood, and various cooking methods such as barbecue, steaming or boiling are used to keep the original flavor of the materials. The seasoning is only salt and a little pepper, because the chef thinks that too much seasoning will mask the delicious seafood from the sea.

Common words on the menu

Cooking: Insalata salad, Saltati stir-fry, Minestra soup, elato ice cream, orbetto sherbet, Cioccolato net roast, al Forno roast, Lesso cook and Umido stew.

Ingredients: garlic, tomato (dried tomato is tomato, fresh tomato juice is tomato), pepper, olive oil.

Sauce: Arrabbiata sauce (such as Penne Arrabbiata, that is, Chili sauce long-term powder), Nero di Seppia cuttlefish juice.

Ingredients: Italian Bacon, Italian Roasted Pigeon, Calamari Squid, Capesante Belt, Gamberoni Shrimp, Alagosta Lobster, La Sogliola Dragon, Filippo Beef tenderloin and Figato Beef Liver.

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So Italians often say, "There is no Italian food in Italy, only authentic local food."

Pizza and noodles

When it comes to Italian food, we are most familiar with pizza and pasta. According to different cooking methods and seasonings, simple pasta can have endless changes.

For example, pizza can be divided into round iron plate baking and square iron plate baking according to different shapes; According to different practices, it is divided into pancakes and thick cakes. The ingredients added to the cake are more abundant: the pizza with tomatoes and cheese is called PizzaMargherita；; Tomatoes with cheese and mushrooms are called PizzaconFunghi；; Tomatoes with cheese, mushrooms and ham are called PizzaconFunghieProsciutto；; Tomatoes with cheese and sardines are called PizzaNapoletana；; Spiced ketchup is called PizzaMarinara；; PizzaconPeperoni is added to the sliced yellow green pepper; Seafood pizza is called pizza.

So if you don't know a little Italian, you will be confused by so many names.

Pasta is the general term for pasta. Legend has it that when Italian traveler Kyle Poirot traveled to China, he couldn't put it down for China's noodles and brought them back to Italy, but he was afraid that it would be a long way and could not be preserved, so he thought of drying them. The method of vermicelli is recorded in detail in his travel notes "Donglu". Today's pasta is a low-calorie carbohydrate, which is made of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs and salt.

There are many kinds of pasta, which can be roughly divided into three types according to their shapes and tastes: long noodles, short noodles and egg noodles. The long face is represented by spaghetti. Short faces include tubular face (macaroni), pen face (Penne), Conchiglie, Fusilli, butterfly face, etc. Egg noodles are noodles made of wheat flour and eggs, which are more elastic and taste better. There are many kinds of noodles, such as spaghetti, lasagna and lasagna.

Generally, northern Italy prefers lasagna, tubular noodles and noodle jiaozi, while central Italy eats more pimples, while southern Italy holds the tradition of using dried noodles. The sauce and ingredients of each noodle must also be different. For example, thin sauce or olive oil is suitable for long noodles, with mushrooms or cuttlefish, clams and cod seafood; Short noodles are suitable for thick sauce, and meat noodles are delicious.

Italian food in Shanghai

Parlando Italian Restaurant opened by Portman Ritz-Carlton Shanghai is the flagship of Italian cuisine in Shanghai.

Parlando Restaurant is named after the famous Italian architect andrea palladio (1508- 1580). His works include the cathedral in Vicenza, northeastern Italy, and many other buildings. Most of his architectural designs have stable arches. This style was later handed down and named after him as Palandot School.

Parlando Restaurant has three Parlando-style arches at the entrance of the hotel, the main entrance of the restaurant and the other end of the restaurant, which makes people feel a strong Italian style inadvertently. The lighting design of the restaurant dome is unique, and the lighting and natural light are perfectly integrated. Inspired by the decoration of the Venetian Governor's Office, Japanese optical fiber technology was first applied to the lighting of the middle wall of the restaurant, making the changing lights a landscape of the restaurant and creating an elegant atmosphere.

Lando Restaurant invited chef AngeloSabatelli, who has won many international awards, as CEO. Sabatelli grew up on the Adriatic coast, which is rich in natural and healthy Mediterranean vegetables, fish, shellfish and olive oil, which gave him the natural ability to cook authentic Italian food.

Mr. Sabatelli's specialties are: Masala wine soaked foie gras mixed with saffron stew; Delicious seafood with fresh asparagus risotto; Roman roast chicken with bell peppers, olives and spices; Braised clams, roasted tomatoes and olives; Hot chocolate pudding with vanilla ice cream; Tanlamisu dessert, etc.

Because he likes drilling naturally, he has been studying the cooking methods of various dishes in the kitchen and constantly developing new menus, so Lando restaurant can have brand-new menus every season. If one day you have a chance to eat in Palan's restaurant, you may even have a chance to ask Sabatelli for some tips on Italian food.

The drinks in Parlando restaurant are also worth mentioning. For example, wine vinegar for appetizing and digestion. These wine vinegars are all made from traditional high-quality German wines. Wine and vinegar are packed in slender glass bottles, all made by hand. When tasting wine, wine vinegar will be poured into a special long-handled glass. The slow, light, mellow and sour vinegar smells like honey and the unique fragrance of wine. The wonderful taste and the strange glass complement each other, which is amazing.

Wine vinegar has always been regarded by Europeans as the most distinguished gift to entertain guests and a panacea for strengthening the body, because wine vinegar has a powerful bactericidal function, can promote the metabolism of the human body, and helps to digest carbohydrates and decompose fat. It is also rich in vitamins B 1, B 12, C and nicotinic acid, as well as minerals such as calcium, magnesium and phosphorus.