Italian food

•       Pizza

Pizza is an oven-baked bread typically topped with a tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings such as beef, mozzarella, tomato, mushrooms and so on. Pizza can be baked in an oven with stone bricks above the heat source, an electric deck oven. In many expensive restaurants, pizza baked in a wood- or coal-fired brick oven. 

Pizza is one of the national foods of Italy and become popular in many parts of the world. In the 20th century, pizza has become a globally accessible dish mainly due to Italian immigrants that have brought their dishes to new people with resounding success and many times in racially and culturally resistive environments. Like pizza in Australia, in United state, in Brazil, in India and many more.

The types of pizza :

1.       Neapolitan pizza (pizza napoletana): Authentic Neapolitan pizzas are typically made with tomatoes and Mozzarella cheese

2.       Lazio style: Pizza in lazio, rome as well as in many other parts of Italy.

•      Tiramisu

Tiramisu is an Italian cake and dessert. It is made of dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eeg yolk and mascarpone, and flavored with liquor and cocoa. The recipe has been adapted into many varieties of puddings, cakes and other desserts.

Tiramisu is a layered dessert, consisting of alternating layers of coffee-soaked Savoiardi biscuits and sweet mixture of mascarpone cheese and eggs and sugar. Eggs, sugar and Marsala wine are cooked as a zabaione. Cocoa powder is sifted on top (and sometimes between layers) as both a garnish and a bitter counterpoint to the sweetened cheese mixture

•      Drink (Italian wine)

Italian wine is wine produced in Italy, a country which is home to some of the oldest wine-producing regions in the world. Italian wine is exported largely around the world and has market share of over 10% in most Asian countries. Wine is extremely popular in Italy. Italians lead the world in wine consumption by volume with 70 literes per capita consumption, compared to 25 litres in the US, 20 litres in Australia, 40 millilitres in China and 9 millilitres in India.

Italy's classification system has four classes of wine, with two falling under the EU category Quality Wine Produced in a Specific Region (QWPSR) and two falling under the category of 'table wine'. The four classes are:

Table Wine:

• Vino da Tavola (VDT) - Denotes simply that the wine is made in Italy. The label usually indicates a basic wine, made for local consumption.

• Indicazione Geografica Tipica (IGT) - Denotes wine from a more specific region within Italy. This appellation was created in 1992 for wines that were considered to be of higher quality than simple table wines, but which did not conform to the strict wine laws for their region. Before the IGT was created, "Super Tuscan" wines such as Tignanello were labeled Vino da Tavola.

QWPSR:

• Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC)
• Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG)