Pasta all over the world

Somalia: Baasto (pasta) is quite popular as well. To give this Italian dish a distinctly Somali twist, Somalis often serve it with stew instead of pasta sauce, and more importantly, it is often served with a banana.

In italy spaghetti is a long, thin, cylindrical pasta of Italian origin. A variety of pasta dishes are based on it, from spaghetti with cheese and pepper or garlic and oil to a spaghetti with tomato, meat, and other sauces. Spaghetti is made of semolina or flour and water. In the United States around the end of the 1800s, spaghetti was offered in restaurants as Spaghetti Italienne (which likely consisted of extremely soggy noodles and a tomato sauce diluted with broth) and it wasn't until decades later that it came to be prepared with garlic or peppers. Canned spaghetti, kits for making spaghetti, and spaghetti with meatballs became popular, and the dish has become a staple in that country.

Italian Pizza All Over the World

Barbary States: My instinctive reaction to pasta dishes in Buenos Aires is that the pasta is more varied, chubbier, more likely to be filled, less shiny, and softer than the pasta you get in the United States.The sauces tend to be less red, and much creamier.As to pizza, it’s excellent. The toppings seemed to be pretty much what you’d get in the States though whether that’s the result of the recent globalization of pizza I have no way of knowing.

Australia: The usual Italian varieties are available, but there is also the Australian, or australiana, which has the usual tomato sauce base and mozzarella cheese with bacon and egg (seen as quintessentially Australian breakfast fare).

Brazil: Sao Paulo, calling itself "The Pizza Capital of the World", has 6000 pizza establishments and 1.4 million pizzas are consumed daily. Typically, pizzas follow the Neapolitan variety, rather than the Roman one, being thicker and more doughy and oftentimes lacking tomato sauce.

India: Pizza outlets serve pizzas with several Indian based toppings like Tandoori Chicken and Paneer. Indian pizzas are generally made more spicy as compared to their western counterparts, to suit Indian taste. Along with Indian variations, more conventional pizzas are also eaten.

Pakistan: Pizza outlets serve pizzas with several Indian based toppings like Tandoori Chicken and Paneer. Indian pizzas are generally made more spicy as compared to their western counterparts, to suit Indian taste. Along with Indian variations, more conventional pizzas are also eaten.

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Places Colonized by Italy and France

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Why Food is important to the Italian culture?

To Italians food is very important. Food is a way of talking and being together.

Kinds of French and Italian Foods

French Food:
meat, grains (breads and pastries), herbs, fruits, and vegetables

Italian Food:
meat, grins (pasta), herbs, fruits, vegetables, and oils


They are almost the same.

Countries Influenced by French and Italian Cooking

Italian Food:
American
Australian

French food:
Trinidad
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