A Culinary Tour of Italy – An Introduction

Authetic Italian Food and Wine

The holiday season is now a nostalgic memory. It is a time when family and friends gathered around the dinner table and discussed many topics. One topic that always comes to our table is food and wine, notably Italian food and wine. Before you know it, the authenticity of various dishes is debated. You know, is the dish Italian or is it Italian American?

I tried to tell everyone that I made the study a number of years ago. Everyone looked at me with a puzzled expression, they shrugged their shoulders, and the discussion continued. The summer of my senior year at Pratt Institute, I took a culinary tour of Italy. I spent the month of August studying my heritage and the arts in Italy with an intense concentration on the culinary arts. Since the discussion continues, let’s blog about it.

I was mostly interested in dishes served in Italian restaurants and Italian American restaurants in New York. It involved all courses of the menu from appetizers to desserts. The subject and dishes will make interesting text. The number of dishes that we shall talk about is going to require more than one blog. Therefore, to do justice to the topic “Is The Food Italian or Is It Italian American” we are creating a sequence of blogs, which shall take our readers on a short culinary tour of Italy. Our plane landed in Rome, and that is where our sequence of events begins.

Rome ET04B

www.videoguidebooks.com Lunch at an outdoor restaurant is a fine way to begin our explorations in Rome, the most historic city in Europe. Then we take a walk to Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, the only significant gothic church in the city. Even though Ro…

ROME, ITALY VIRTUAL WALK

A 30 minute walk in Rome. The first half of the walk takes you down the exclusive Via Veneto, forever linked to “La Dolce Vita.” As the Via Veneto curves gently and sweeps downhill, you pass luxury hotels and restaurants with their unique glass-enclo…