Italy LIES about its food

We are used to thinking that Italy is that magical place from which all our favorite foods come, so much so that Italians themselves have started to exercise the authority to decree what can be cooked or not. But what if I told you that many of the ‘typical’ Italian foods are not actually of Italian origin and are all the result of a marketing effort?

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Hi my name is Marco as you can tell from my name and accent I’m actually Italian the thing that I love most about Italy just like everybody else is the food it’s great we got pizza pasta cheese Mortadella dude Mortadella is so good I swear I could live off of that but if

There’s one thing that I hate about Italian culinary culture is the fact that they try to gatekeeping it from everybody else any kind of variation of their original recipes will make them go insane I mean you’ve all seen the videos the best Chicago style pizza where’s the cheese it’s under the

Sauce there’s no cheese on it it’s under the sauce like I’m Italian and this is hurting me it’s from Chicago but what if I told you that actually Italian culinary culture is full of lies that many of the foods labeled as Italian are not truly Italian and it’s all the

Result of a marketing effort well bule up because I’m about to give you some real Insider information to better understand why Italy lies about its typical Foods one must first learn a bit about the history of Italy in fact many people living outside the peninsula probably do not

Know that the Italian state is relatively young having been established in 1861 and therefore being just over 160 years old that makes the Italian state even younger than the us but how is that possible wasn’t it Italy that was known for its Millennia old culture descending from the Roman Empire well

Yes but the Roman Empire fell in 476 what happened in the Italian Peninsula from the fall of the Roman Empire until the B of A Proper State during this period we see that Italy underwent continuous alternation of foreign dominions both politically and culturally some of the people Italy was

Dominated by were the ostrog gods the Byzantine Empire the Lombards the sarasen the Normans the zabians Spain and finally Napoleon’s France now I have made this list for you to understand that modern Italy because of an alternation of foreign dominions is a blend of many different cultures which obviously also influence their culinary

Culture it’s also worth noting that after the unification Italy also due to the two world wars that occurred shortly after was in a state of extreme poverty so how can people that can barely feed themselves develop new foods and dishes the situation was so difficult that many Italians fled as immigrants to other

Countries where there were job opportunities such as France or the United States but then you might be wondering where do all those foods that Italy bosss so much about come from well remember when I said that many Italians were immigrants many of them returned bringing with them the dishes they had learned to

Appreciate abroad of course this doesn’t apply to every single Italian Dish but you get what I mean let me give you some examples the tomato sauce pasta with tomato sauce is one of the most iconic dishes of Italian cuisine worldwide but if you take a closer look you’ll

Discover that the sauce was actually invented by Spain in fact tomatoes are native to the Americans and were introduced to Europe by Spanish explorers in the 16th century as a proof of that until the 19th century the tomato sauce was still called Spanish sauce in Italy the parmesan cheese the

Modern recipe of this dish was actually developed in Wisconsin by Italian immigrants and then brought back to Italy the pizza well yes pizza was invented in southern Italy it was much more popular in the US where the first ever only serving pizza restaurant so the first pizzeria open in 1911 in New

York by an Italian immigrant in conclusion while Italian cuisine today is among the best if not the best in the world a lot of its typical dishes originate from foreign Cuisines so if you’re Italian stop bothering people if they cook a variation of your favorite dish Live and

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