Food of Italy

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Street Food

Margherita Pizza

Naples' classic pizza - tomato, mozzarella and basil on a blistered wood-fired crust.

Italy · Naples, Campania

Desserts & Sweets

Tiramisù

Coffee-soaked ladyfingers layered with whipped mascarpone and dusted with cocoa - Italy's most exported dessert.

Italy · Veneto

Noodles & Pasta

Spaghetti Carbonara

Rome's iconic pasta of egg, pecorino, guanciale and black pepper - silky and rich, and famously made without cream.

Italy · Rome, Lazio

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Meat & Grills

Bistecca alla Fiorentina

Florence's iconic thick-cut Chianina steak, grilled rare over open coals and sold by weight.

Italy · Florence, Tuscany

Noodles & Pasta

Pesto alla Genovese

Basil, pine nut and pecorino sauce tossed through pasta.

Italy · Liguria

Meat & Grills

Porchetta

Herb-stuffed boneless pork roast with crackling skin.

Italy · Central Italy

Dumplings

Ravioli

Stuffed pasta pillows in butter and sage or sauce.

Italy · Nationwide

Desserts & Sweets

Savoiardi

Light, crisp Italian sponge biscuits named after the House of Savoy, used in tiramisu and served with sweet wine.

Italy · Piedmont

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Seafood

Spaghetti alle Vongole

Spaghetti tossed with clams, garlic, white wine and parsley.

Italy · Naples

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Drinks & Beverages

Cynar

Cynar is a bittersweet Italian artichoke-leaf digestivo, born in 1952 and now a classic Italian digestif and Spritz base.

Italy · Milan and Novi Ligure (Piedmont/Lombardy production) + nationwide Italian digestivo tradition

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Desserts & Sweets

Frittelle di Riso di San Giuseppe

Roman rice fritters fried for the Feast of Saint Joseph on 19 March - pear-shaped, custardy inside, dusted in powdered sugar.

Italy · Lazio - Rome and the Castelli Romani (Frascati, Velletri, Ariccia)

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Desserts & Sweets

Mpanatigghi

Mpanatigghi are Sicilian pastries from Modica, filled with a sweet, chocolatey mixture of beef, almonds and spices, and dusted with sugar.

Italy · Modica

Desserts & Sweets

Gelato

Denser, silkier and more intense than ice cream - Italy's frozen pride.

Italy · Nationwide

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Noodles & Pasta

Lasagne alla Bolognese

Layered sheets of pasta, slow ragù and béchamel baked until bubbling.

Italy · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna

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Desserts & Sweets

Gelato al Pistacchio

Gelato al pistacchio is Italian pistachio ice cream, dense and softly churned, with a deep roasted nut flavour and a muted green colour.

Italy · Sicily

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Noodles & Pasta

Penne Lisce

Penne lisce are smooth, plain Italian quill pasta whose unridged surface suits light oil, tomato and cheese sauces, a versatile Campanian home staple.

Italy · Campania

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Cheese & Dairy

Bitto

A pressed-cook alpine cheese made from the milk of brown Alpine cows grazing the Val Gerola in Lombardy, aged from a few months to over ten years.

Italy · Val Gerola, Lombardy, with adjacent alpe in Trentino and Graubünden

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Cheese & Dairy

Branzi

A pressed semi-hard alpine cheese from the Val Brembana in Lombardy, traditionally made with a small amount of goat's or sheep's milk.

Italy · Val Brembana, Province of Bergamo, Lombardy

Drinks & Beverages

Génépi

Italian Alpine herbal liqueur made from hand-picked Artemisia genepì in Valle d'Aosta - straw-green, floral, traditionally flamed over a sugar cube.

Italy · Valle d'Aosta (and the Occitan valleys of Piedmont)

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Snacks & Appetizers

Stecchi

Italian fruit skewers dipped in hot chocolate - strawberries, melon, pineapple, and banana on bamboo sticks, served at Italian festivals and as a quick home dessert.

Italy · Italy (especially Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, and Veneto)

Desserts & Sweets

Buccellato

A traditional Tuscan ring-shaped sweet bread from Lucca, enriched with eggs and butter, filled with figs, raisins, candied peel, and pine nuts.

Italy · Lucca and Versilia, Tuscany

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Noodles & Pasta

Lumache

A short, ridged Italian pasta shaped like a small snail shell, tossed in Tuscan ragù, walnut sauces, ricotta and spinach, or simple garlic and oil so the sauce catches in the spiral.

Italy · Italy (Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Liguria - Siena, Bologna, Rome, Genoa, Arezzo)

Noodles & Pasta

Passatelli

Passatelli are the breadcrumb-and-parmesan noodles of Emilia-Romagna, pressed through a ferretto into capon broth and served at Christmas Eve tables from Modena to Parma.

Italy · Emilia-Romagna - Modena, Bologna and Parma

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Noodles & Pasta

Ravioli di Magro

Ravioli di Magro is one of the classic dishes in the pasta tradition of Italy.

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