Boot-shaped land makes South Italy and North Italy with different climate and topography have their own unique cooking styles. Showing its hospitality and friendly character 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 random calls.

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

Lower file pattern

Mainly refers to soup (Zuppe), pasta or risotto, Italian is Primo Pratto. Because there will be a main course after that, the portion will be less.

The second course/main course

It is the soul of the whole dinner, mainly seafood or meat dishes. Caicai style is cooked by grilling 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

Basically, this is the first course, then the pasta and the main course, and finally the dessert. There are four courses. People with big appetites can order a cheese (Formagi) on the forehead of dessert, or they can choose to share a plate of spaghetti, but they must explain it when ordering.

Italian food dining memorandum

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

Well-known pizza was originally made for the convenience of take-out, which rarely appeared in high-end restaurants, but only appeared in the form of appetizers (Misto) at most. 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. It is said that there are more than 300 styles of pasta alone. Besides pasta, risotto is also a popular choice for the first course. Stewed meat cooked with cheese and clear soup tastes hard and has high humidity. In addition, dumplings are a choice with strong family flavor.

Because the weight of pasta is generally not light, in order to avoid leftovers, it is best to share it with others, but it must be requested in advance, and the chef will allocate appropriate weight to everyone. A person who puts several foods on a plate 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 an auxiliary role in the main course with dishes, but you can also ask the chef if 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 and send them to you for you to choose from.

After dessert, you can order drinks, mainly coffee, black tea or Digestivo. Generally speaking, you can order espresso, but milk cappuccino is also acceptable.

After eating in a high-end Italian restaurant, you often have the opportunity to meet and chat with the chef. This is very common in Italy. Besides their friendly personality, chefs (especially those operators) also want to listen to their guests' opinions. So if you want to express your thanks to 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 recommended to arrive early, it should not be later 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 features

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, which leads to their own cooking characteristics. The north is adjacent to France, and there are many dairy dishes with cream, which should be regarded as heavy in taste and simple in seasoning. In the south, tomato sauce, dried tomatoes, peppers and olive oil are widely used, with strong flavor.

Italy's summer recipes are mainly seafood, and many cooking methods, such as barbecue, steaming or cooking, 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 ocean.

Menu design-common words on the menu

Gourmet: Insalata salad, Saltati stir-fry, Minestra soup, elato ice cream, orbetto sherbet, Cioccolato net baking, al Forno baking, Lesso cooking and Umido stewing.

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

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

Ingredients: Italian Bacon, Pigeon Pigeon Beechino, Caramaritti Squid, Capesante Belt, Gamberoni Fresh Shrimp, arago Starlobster, La Sogliola Dragon, filetto tenderloin and Figato Liver.

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Among the cuisines of European countries, the most famous are French cuisine and Italian cuisine. However, because French food is mostly cooked with cheese, fresh milk and butter, it is not as good as Italian food for China people's taste.

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Therefore, 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: this pizza with tomatoes and cheese is called PizzaMargherita；; Tomatoes with cheese and mushrooms are called PizzaconFunghi；; Tomatoes with cheese, mushrooms and ham are called spaghetti; ; Tomatoes with cheese and sardines are called PizzaNapoletana；; Tomato sauce with spices is called PizzaMarinara；; PizzaconPeperoni is added to the sliced yellow and green peppers; 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, so he brought them back to Italy, but he was worried that it would be too long to save them, so he thought of drying them. The method of drying noodles is recorded in detail in his travel notes "Journey to the East". 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 delicious. There are many kinds of noodles, such as spaghetti, lasagna and lasagna.

Generally speaking, northern Italy prefers lasagna, tubular noodles and noodle jiaozi, while central Italy eats more pimples, while southern Italy has a tradition of using dry 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 seafood such as cuttlefish, clams and cod; Short noodles are suitable for thick sauce, and meat noodles are delicious.

Italian food in Shanghai

The Palando Italian Restaurant opened in the Ritz-Carlton Portman Shanghai can be said to be 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 passed down and named Palandot School after him.

Parlando Restaurant has set up 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 office of the Governor-General of Venice, Japanese optical fiber technology was first applied to the lighting of the middle wall of the restaurant, making the changing lighting a landscape of the restaurant and creating an elegant atmosphere.

Lando Restaurant invited AngeloSabatelli, a chef who has won many international awards, as its CEO. Sabatelli grew up along the Adriatic Sea, where he was rich in natural and healthy Mediterranean vegetables, fish, shellfish and olive oil, which gave him the talent to cook authentic Italian food.

Mr. Sabatelli's specialties include: Ma Sala wine soaked foie gras mixed with saffron braised rice; 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 is naturally fond of drilling holes, 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 you have a chance to eat in Palan's restaurant one day, 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 is used for appetizing and digestion. These wine vinegars are all made from traditional high-quality German wines. Wine vinegar is packed in slender glass bottles, all of which are handmade. When tasting, wine vinegar will be poured into a special long-handled glass. Slowly, faintly, the mellow and sour taste of vinegar exudes the sweetness of 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, which can promote the metabolism of the body, help digest carbohydrates and decompose fat, and is also rich in vitamins B 1, B 12, C and nicotinic acid, as well as minerals such as calcium, magnesium and phosphorus.