Cooking World

For most people all Italian cuisine is like pizza and spaghetti. Those who have only skin-deep knowledge about Italian cooking frequently think that it is all pretty much alike. But, those who travel through Italy can notice differences in dishes and their ingredients even if the cities are just some miles apart.

Every Italian town has its own style of making sausage, special kinds of cheese and wine, and its local type of bread. It is funny, but if to ask people how to make the most common for all Italians pasta, you will not hear identical answers. Varieties of the Italian cuisine can bee seen just on one example with pasta recipes: made in every possible variations in size and shape soft egg noodles in the North, hard-boiled spaghetti in the South.

Italy is a country of great varieties, and cuisine is simple one more aspect of the diversity of its culture. This diversity has historical and geographical roots. Land of plenty with countless environments and their variations: fertile valleys, mountains covered with forests, Mediterranean coastlines.

But if the diversity of ingredients can be explained by the climate opportunities, great number of food styles in Italy result from its history. Many populations in the past have occupied Italian territory, and most of them have influenced the culture and traditions.