Italian Cooking, What Makes the Difference
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Italian cuisine is considered to be one of the best in the world, but what is it that makes it so special? Maybe it helps to take a closer look at the recipes. Reading American or English cook books for example I noticed that there are very often proposed lots and lots of different ingredients. Trying to cook these meals, in spite of all the different ingredients, honestly in most cases I was not overwhelmed by the taste (there are exceptions of course). In contrast to this, the major part of Italian recipes rely on few ingredients with very high quality.
Italians traditionally are picky when it comes to food and cooking. In our village in the Italian countryside you can watch old ladies with a small pension shopping in the small grocery store. Even if they have very little money they will not buy some sort of cheaper salami or ham of average quality. Instead they´ll rather buy a few slices of real high quality salami or the famous ham from Norcia. For them excellent quality is much more important than quantity (They also hardly ever would buy processed food by the way). It is obvious, that Italians prefer the original taste of quality goods to any mixture of dozens of tastes blended together. Let´s just take a very basic recipe, pasta with tomato sauce.
The pasta, preferably homemade, is cooked "al dente" (with a bite), the "sugo", the tomato sauce is made from fresh, ripe tomatoes, harvested at the exactly right time, which really taste like tomatoes. The basil for seasoning is not some dry crumbs out of a plastic bag, but fresh leaves from the garden or the market. Add some high quality cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, some garlic, slightly fried in this oil and some ground Parmesan or Pecorino cheese (real cheese no artificial fake junk cheese) and you have a perfect meal. Each of the ingredients is tasty and has a valor of its own. You don´t need more.
The idea and probably the main "secret" is to keep the cooking simple and not to destroy the good taste of each ingredient by adding too much different flavours.
There are three more advantages of simple homemade Italian cooking.
Italians traditionally are picky when it comes to food and cooking. In our village in the Italian countryside you can watch old ladies with a small pension shopping in the small grocery store. Even if they have very little money they will not buy some sort of cheaper salami or ham of average quality. Instead they´ll rather buy a few slices of real high quality salami or the famous ham from Norcia. For them excellent quality is much more important than quantity (They also hardly ever would buy processed food by the way). It is obvious, that Italians prefer the original taste of quality goods to any mixture of dozens of tastes blended together. Let´s just take a very basic recipe, pasta with tomato sauce.
The pasta, preferably homemade, is cooked "al dente" (with a bite), the "sugo", the tomato sauce is made from fresh, ripe tomatoes, harvested at the exactly right time, which really taste like tomatoes. The basil for seasoning is not some dry crumbs out of a plastic bag, but fresh leaves from the garden or the market. Add some high quality cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, some garlic, slightly fried in this oil and some ground Parmesan or Pecorino cheese (real cheese no artificial fake junk cheese) and you have a perfect meal. Each of the ingredients is tasty and has a valor of its own. You don´t need more.
The idea and probably the main "secret" is to keep the cooking simple and not to destroy the good taste of each ingredient by adding too much different flavours.
There are three more advantages of simple homemade Italian cooking.
- It doesn't take too much time to cook really nice meals for you and your families.
- You (And your family) get used to the original taste of fresh quality food and will be more resistant to eat some unhealthy crap.
- Mediterranean fresh food is definitively healthier than fast food.
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