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Six famous Italian desserts

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Famous Italian desserts - Strudel

As you will certainly know, Italy is especially famous for its cuisine. Italians abroad have usually the reputation of being excellent cooks. Indeed, even the worst Italian cooks seem to be able to create delicious dishes. Today, I want to share with you the history and the recipes of six famous Italian desserts. BABA’ Babà is one of the most famous Italian desserts of Naples. It’s an oven-baked small cake made with eggs, milk, butter that is then soaked in rum or limoncello liqueur. Babà is usually shaped like a small mushroom and sometimes it’s also filled with pastry cream.…

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Traditional recipes from the Marches, Italy

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Italy is a land of wonderful landscapes, historic buildings and of incredible artistic works. Italy is also a land where you can find delicious food. It’s not by chance that Pizza, and pasta are the most famous Italian dishes in the world. However, Italians don’t always eat pizza and pasta! In fact, Italy offers a wide variety of food and if you travel to Italy, you’ll  notice that each single Italian region has its typical dishes and products. I’ve already talked about some of the typical dishes of Piedmont and Friuli in two previous articles. Today, instead, I want to…

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Sicilian food

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Today’s article is about Italian regional recipes. In particular I’m going to write about Sicilian food. Sicilian food is incredibly rich since it brings with it all the traces that all the different cultures that have inhabited the island have left – Greek, Arab, Spanish, etc. So, it’s pretty difficult to choose only some Sicilian recipes to present in this article. Thus, I’ve decided to present the ones I believe to be the most famous. ARANCINI Arancini are absolutely my favourite Sicilian food. In Sicily, arancini are traditionally prepared the 13th of December for the feast of Saint Lucy. The…

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Four traditional Italian recipes from Friuli

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Four traditional Italian recipes from Friuli

Italy is a country full of history, culture and of great variety of food. Each Italian region, in fact, has its own typical dishes. Usually, some of these dishes aren’t even known among Italians who live in different regions, not to say among non-Italians.   In another article I talked about some typical dishes of Piedmont cooking. Today, instead, I’m going to explain four traditional Italian recipes from Friuli.   FRICO There are many tasty traditional Italian recipes from Friuli, but one of my favourite is definitely Frico. Originally this was a very poor dish, cooked to recycle cheese left-overs.…

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Italian cooking – Piedmont

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Italian cooking - Piedmont

Italian cooking is famous for its delicious dishes. However, few people know that each Italian region has its typical products and dishes. So, today I’m starting a new series of articles related to Italian regional food. In this article I’m going to talk about some Piedmont’s traditional dishes and products. BACI DI DAMA Baci di dama, literally Lady’s kisses, are a typical dish of the Italian cooking. It seems that the recipe of this cookies was born in Piedmont in the XIX century in the city of Tortona. The origin of the name of these cookies is uncertain, as well…

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