If you’ve ever wondered what food has become a staple for me living in Italy, this is the video to watch. I’m revealing my top 10 Italian foods I cannot live without in Italy and just why that is. Believe me, it was hard to narrow it down to just 10 but I figured you don’t have hours to watch a video so if you’re curious about what my favourite food staples are here in Italy, this is for you!
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02:02 Food #2
04:30 Food #3
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Wow! I love both Campanian and Sicilian food! My biggest challenge when I switched to entirely eat and cook Italian is to understand the system of Breakfast, Apperitive, First DIsh, Second Dish, Contorno and Dessert. I could not even imagine that Salad is Contorno in Italian cuisine and still havent figured out which one of this is soup and zuppa, and what to eat for lunch and for dinner if I cannot eat the full meal. The biggest shock was the breakfast though: it is just coffee, or coffee with cookies, or cornetto with capuccino or something else sweet
Hi Claire. Nice episode. Glad that you have changed your diet in Italy. I agree with you. There are things that you learn not to do without. I tell you what Claire: when I was young my parents used to come to Italy on holiday and to see friends from when they lived here. Nutella didn’t exist in England then. When I was in Italy I tasted foods like Nutella and fruit juices that where unheard of in England. Although you could find everything in the right parts of London. Spitalfields market was spot on for any kind of Italian cheese. Anyone you could wish for. It’s a meat market but they had Italian cheeses as well. You could get Nutella in Italian delivatessens if there was one near you. Tesco had no such thing in those days. I don’t think that Sainsbury even existed then. For pasta you really needed an Italian shop. There were a few and some used to do the rounds in certain areas with a lorry that was a mobile delicatessen.
In a lot of the wholesale markets in London you can buy stock fish and baccala’. Even if they sell flowers and vegetables.
Hi Claire, agree with most of your list! We buy pasta, olive oil, cheeses, bread, etc produced locally near our home in Puglia. There is nothing like it and take a bunch back to England when we go back to visit the family. By the way, our local barista mixes Nutella with coffee and uses it to add an extra flavour to coffee drinks as well as do his coffee art on cappuccini.
Why don't you buy REAL bread, cut it slices or peaces and freeze it? With a 2 minute in microwaves oven you'll have a REAL BREAD hot as fresh, without additives, etc….😜😋 (real bread…= flour, salt, yeast, water e nothing more…) Try it!. And about palm oil: It's non toxic! It's only a saturate fat, exactly as butter, lard, coconut butter and so on, we need few fat in our diet and only a few part of this fat has to be saturated fats. It's a matter of equlibrium. If you say instead palm oil contribute the deforestation of Malaysia that's another problem…and I agree with you 😊 I love Nutella too…
What’s your favourite Italian food? Comment below and let me know!
E Bella mia….you've become Italian….😅
Ce` poco da fare
I'm a Mutti man….
Would even eat em straight out of tin goccio d''Dolio sale e via
There are some excellent supermarket olive oils, the more you pay, usually the better the quality.
You still have the taste of a Brit with packaged cheeses, bread and cornetti! Who would be supermarket quality cornetti and bread when you can get fressh!
stuffed zucchini flowers are THE BEST!!!!
Great selection and what a fun topic! Living close to the boarder in Austria, I sometimes shop at Eurospin in Brennero. Love the jarred carciofi, the Asiago cheese, the panna da cucina, the taggiasca olives, the fresh pasta, the gelato…🥰 They have become staples of my diet.
Really lovely video, Claire! Kinda weird, but even though I’m Italian I don’t like pasta at all — I’m all about pizza though 😉
I'm from central Italy and I didn't know 'Cinque Buchi' and 'Anelli Siciliani' pasta, good to try next time in Sicily.
Yes, canned pelati tomatoes are the best substitute for fresh tomatoes. Especially when you miss that particular period of late Summer, when shops start selling 10 kg wooden boxes of fresh San Marzano perini tomatoes for a very low price and with which you can cook a lot of tomato sauce for many delicious pasta dishes.
P.s. Dario Bressanini has just released a short but incredibly interesting video on why sugar or baking soda are added to tomato sauce and which of them is better
Yes, fresh bread is the preferred option also here in the North.
Until 20 years ago or some many bakeries delivered directly to your house fresh bread and milk; then food deliveries and uncontrolled mall spread destroyed the whole stuff.
Yes, price of EV oil skyrocketed in these last couple of years.
Cheese and wine? The you should definitely taste Lagrein cheese! Typical Alto Adige cheese.
🎶Cipster! Pata-pata-pata-tose!🎶 (Old Cipster commercial jingle. Geez, I'm so old!)
If you had been to Italian school during you teenage years, you'd probably had eaten tons of Fonzie's and Cipster. Actually their smell bring me back to that period, where literally the whole school smelt like them during lesson breaks.
Love, love love you Italian favorites, yum 😋 Coming to Italy in a few days, feel like you made that video "refresher" just for me🥰🤩
Non conoscevo quel tipo di pasta Siciliana, tipi di cibo ce ne sono talmente tanti in Italia che non farei a meno. Pane solo fresco tutti i giorni colazione cornetto biscotti poi lasagne gnocchi tortellini agnolotti antipasti Piemontesi spezzatino brasato bollito mozzarella di Bufala pesto gnocchetti sardi pizza carciofi ripieni pesce spada Torta Sbrisolona olive farcite olio extravergine Risotto alla milanese frittura di pesce formaggi … La lista è troppo lunga
Come off it Claire, even italians dont eat pasta every day no point in it Living in a country with sucjj..a wide choise.too much bread and pasta