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Jewish Food Research Paper

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Italians take their food very seriously. The main meal of the day is at lunch time. The word for 'the lunch ' is il pranzo. You start with antipasti: these are nibbles like olives, cheese and salami, followed by… il primo (the first course which is pasta or minestrone) then il secondo (the main course which is meat or fish with salad or vegetables) then there is fruit and perhaps a dessert. Finally there is espresso coffee. Italians eat many things that are not usually eaten in the UK, for example, snails, horse, donkey, hedgehog, goat, guinea pig, rabbit and hare, wild boar, sea urchin, sea snails, octopus, squid, sparrows, peacock etc
Before eating a meal, Italians say to each other 'Buon appetito!' This means 'Good appetite!' and it is wishing everyone a good appetite so …show more content…

Originally, it was just a dry, flat bread and was considered food for poor people.
At Christmas, Italians eat a special bread-cake called il panettone. On the 1st. of January, Italians eat lentils for good luck in the new year. At Easter, they eat a special bread-cake in the shape of a dove. It is called la colomba.
Pasta is the most important food in Italy. It means 'paste' because it is a paste of water, flour and sometimes egg. It can be either 'dried' or 'fresh.' There are hundreds of different shapes and types of pasta. Pasta dishes are normally eaten as a first course (un primo piatto).
The original name for 'spaghetti' was 'maccheroni.' The word 'spaghetti' actually means 'strings.’ Before the existence of pasta factories, people made their own spaghetti and would hang it outside to dry. Below is a photo of people in Palermo, Sicily, hanging out spaghetti to dry.
The long pasta known as 'tagliatelle' (it looks like flat spaghetti) was created by a chef in honour of Lucrezia Borgia's long blond hair. Lucrezia lived from 1480 till 1519. She was also known as Lucrezia d'Este and she was Duchess of the town of

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