Italian food is very rich, with thousands of dishes. Italian cuisine with a long history has had a far-reaching impact on the catering in Europe and America. Many factions including French cuisine and American cuisine have exhibited it, so it is known as the "mother of western food". Let's analyze Italian food in detail.

Nature has endowed Italy with rich Mediterranean vegetables, wine grapes and fresh and ripe fruits, fresh fish just out of the water, carefully raised animals and a forest full of mushrooms outside the kitchen window. For centuries, Italian chefs have learned not to "improve" their food. Just give the Italians some fresh olive oil, a fresh lemon, a basket of ripe tomatoes, a little garlic, pepper, a few slices of basil and a piece of Balma cheese, and they will make a delicious cake that you will never forget, just like an afternoon spent in a ceremony.

Italy's catering art is an open secret, and it is a country famous for its ever-satisfying pie shops, coffee shops, bars and restaurants. Reflected in the hiss of the coffee machine; The crackle of barbecue on an open flame; Colorful and charming ice cream, long arranged like various pigments on the soundboard; And every mushroom, oleander and anchovy roll is carefully arranged into a big platter, like a Venice mosaic. When the waiter says "Have a good appetite" to you, he invites you to dinner, just as tempting as the melon with a knife he served you at the table in the square.

Let's come to the dining table in the square. Now let's order some wine and mineral water first, and then study the Italian menu. Although the traditional three-hour lunch has gradually declined in big cities in Italy, the hotel still provides a full set of lunch and dinner. Since you usually order a meal, you can eat according to your own time as long as you choose what you want.

There are cold dishes on the menu first. These attractive pre-meal snacks include slices of salami and raw beef as thin as paper, fresh figs wrapped in rose ham, ham, stuffed watermelon slices, Chili eggplant, sweet and sour tender onions, seafood salad and other attractive snacks. However, Italians nowadays are becoming more and more simple. When they are waiting for the second course, they like to eat some fried bread slices. This kind of toast is slightly fried with olive oil, and then added with garlic or a piece of chicken liver.

The first course is not small, but large with the second course. These two dishes constitute the main part of Italian food. The first part, also called soup, is served separately. The most typical part is half a cake or soup with cakes in it. In northern Italy, it is a vegetable rice with rice as the main raw material, or a spicy cereal powder, Buxiting. Whenever you travel to Italy, visitors can eat several kinds of pasta with different lengths, widths and colors. These pasta dishes are specially made by Italian chefs according to traditional cooking methods, using different sauces and making methods, and their estimation of different adhesion between sauces and pasta and personal hobbies. The traditional pastry is Pastini, which is a small star-shaped round pasta cooked in stock, and the machine-made hollow powder and fine noodles are added with tomato sauce. Fresh handmade egg noodles and rolls (usually with meat and cheese) with cream sauce.

The waiter didn't serve the second course or meat dish (or chicken or fish) until the first course was all used up and cleaned up, which explains why Italy rarely eats macaroni and meatballs. (If that kind of fresh and crisp bread hasn't been served yet-Italians usually don't eat bread when they eat spaghetti-it should be served now, but there is no butter, because butter is for breakfast. Just saying that the second course is meat can't express the delicious taste of the first bite: fresh and tender veal with cream; Barbecued mutton with pork; Roasted goat or suckling pig; All kinds of game, such as wild boar, venison, spotted quail and hare; Or all kinds of seafood, such as octopus, squid and rays. Americans are not familiar with these seafood, but Italian chefs are also used to fried chicken or tenderloin. When ordering side dishes, hot green vegetables, such as spinach, endive or asparagus, can be added with butter, sprinkled with olive oil or lemon. Italians also eat fried vegetables-sliced and flowering melons, artichokes and peppers-which are listed on the menu and labeled "fried food"

Next is a salad made of fresh crisp lettuce and other green vegetables. Some diners finish their meal here; However, if you stop eating cheese and fruit-a fresh peach or some cherries or strawberries taken out of the sideboard, or a boiled pear in winter-most Italians will feel dissatisfied and end up drinking a small cup of mellow coffee. If you want to sit longer, you can order sweet wine, such as Santo wine, and soak some biscuits after dinner.

Then, when should we eat the cream chocolate cake on the dining car in the corner of the hotel, or the white chestnut paste snack? You can continue to eat. But note: most Italians don't eat dessert after meals. They usually go to cafes or pastry shops for dessert in the afternoon or evening.

When we say "restaurant", we mean a place where we can sit down and eat. In Italian, the word "restaurant" means the place where we eat formally. There are many dishes to choose from, the whole class has waiters, and the price is expensive-and so on. The lunch time in the hotel is usually 1- 3 pm, and the meal time is 8- 165438+ 0 pm. Some restaurants open at 7: 30, but don't go too early unless you want to be the only diner. If you want to have a light meal, make it simple (but still great) and don't spend too much money, then even a group of fashionable people will choose to go to the restaurant. According to the current usage, the two meanings of "restaurant" and "restaurant" are sometimes used interchangeably. The word "snack bar" can also be found everywhere in Italy. If you are not sure, you can look at the menu posted by the station first. Please remember that in addition to the posted vegetable price, there is also a service charge of 15. In addition, leave a little more tip for the waiter after the meal (5- 10). There may be a charge for "bread and surcharge" in your bill: don't make a fuss if you don't order at all. Because good restaurants and restaurants have regular customers, you must reserve tables in advance. In this way, you can avoid going to eat on their weekly rest day or closing time in summer.

Standing in the coffee bar and enjoying a breakfast with milk, coffee and pasta will make you feel refreshed and start your day-the pasta here may be cream cake or crescent-shaped sweet bread. Eating here is like eating in an ice cream shop. Pay the cashier first, and then send the container to get the food with a stamped invoice. In hotels, continental breakfasts are usually served, and of course, some also serve ham and eggs-the price is amazing-specially for Americans who can't do as the Romans do.

During the day, Italians also go to bars for a refreshing espresso. If you think pure coffee is too strong, you can have a cup of weak coffee (with water). If you want some milk, you can order milk coffee. You can add your own sugar. Milk coffee is filled with familiar hot milk, while companion coffee is topped with whipped cream. Italian bars sell coffee and grapes, but not spirits. Spirits are sold in places called American bars. These bars are generally not located on the street, but they are easy to find in hotels serving foreign businessmen. Italians just don't like to drink hard liquor. However, they are the largest wine consumers in the world. There is no minimum age limit for drinking in Italy, which is a great pleasure for many tourists. They also have drinks like adults. As an aperitif, it is usually a glass of white wine or Campelli wine. Italians like to drink sweet wine after dinner, and sometimes drink grappa.

There is also good news for off-season tourists. Now the ice cream kiosk is open all year round. In the past, Italians thought that only fools would eat ice cream in winter. Don't forget to try gel sorbet (a soft egg-like ice cream) or granite sorbet (a super coarse sorbet with a sharp tongue). There are dozens of strange flavors, from rich chocolate to rich fruit or strawberry. No wonder so many people came out of the store with various flavors of ice cream in their hands and three spoons in them. When you are interested in visiting the square, you should buy an ice cream to amuse yourself.

In short, as long as people remember, the cost of standing to eat is only half that of sitting (the table cost of cafes or restaurants in Navona Square in Rome or St. Kyle Square in Venice is as expensive as the front middle seats in street drama performances). Then the lira in your pocket will last longer. It will be much cheaper to eat somewhere at the end of the street, because there is no rent on the sidewalk there.

Please have a picnic at least once before you leave Italy-this is your pass to enter the world of fragrant meat or delicious deli. Sausage, ham, salami and cheese are made in different ways, and are sold in the unit of "Aiduo" (100g, about 1/4 lbs, enough to make two sandwiches). Generally, the price is clearly marked. You just need to point to100g or 200g. Then go and buy some fruits, bread, small bottles of wine, soda water and mineral water, which can also be bought in the butcher shop. If you don't have lunch on the highway, you can stop at a roadside snack bar that looks like a coffee shop. They are much better than American roadside snack bars. However, if you can't find what you want to eat, come out again. The waitress behind the counter can only mumble a few words at most.

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