Category: Food curiosity

All traditional dishes have a history, but among the most curious and debated is certainly that relating to pasta carbonara. What is its origin? Was it really born in Rome?There is no original recipe, but a recipe that has undergone transformations over time up to the Roman “DOP” one and to which there is no…

Porchetta is undoubtedly one of the most delicious foods in the gastronomic tradition of central Italy (Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Abruzzo, Lazio). The rich taste, the soft consistency of the meat, the crunchy rind, the different spices, awaken in us ancestral memories that are lost in the mists of time.  In literature we find it in…

Pasta is the main food for most Italians, perhaps the one that best identifies Italianness in the world. Many believe that the origin is Chinese, but in reality the history of pasta begins in more remote times, dating back, as some say, to around 7000 years ago, or when man began to abandon the nomadic…