5 Things You NEED to Know About Italian American Food (Don’t Order These in Italy!)

🇮🇹 Food History Time Boys and Girls! Episode 66 is LIVE!

Chef Antonio Caruana + KC break down the REAL story behind Italian American cuisine!

5 Things You NEED to Know:
✅ Why pepperoni pizza doesn’t exist in Italy (and what you’ll get instead!)
✅ The REAL story behind spaghetti and meatballs
✅ How mortadella became “baloney” in America
✅ Why Italians eat differently than Italian Americans
✅ The truth about portion sizes and dining culture

Some Revelations:
🍕 Pepperoni = peppers in Italy (you’ll get bell peppers on your pizza!)
🥩 Bologna comes from trying to recreate mortadella in America
🍝 Spaghetti and meatballs isn’t even an authentic Italian dish
🧀 Why Italians don’t dump cheese on everything
⏰ How Italians actually eat throughout the day

This isn’t about right vs wrong – it’s about understanding the beautiful evolution of food culture! Italian American cuisine came from necessity, creativity, and immigrants doing their best with what they had.

From Chef Antonio’s restaurant LUCE – where authentic regional Italian meets modern technique, this is a great discussion on the Italian American culture and what needs to be done to save it!

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