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Italian cuisine — , Great emigration

Decide the order of Italian cuisine before the pan is hot. “Great emigration” in names that order, and 19 is heat, salt, or time. Do not treat a restaurant photo’s gloss as a quantity. Cross-family: two dough civilisations that turned wheat into a national argument.

Are restaurant versions "authentic"? Restaurant Italian cuisine is one register. Home pots and market stalls are others. Authenticity is a marketing word; technique is not. Cucina italiana is the local name used in this atlas beside Italian cuisine. Italian cuisine is municipal: Neapolitan pizza, Bolognese ragu (not "spaghetti bolognese"), Roman cacio e pepe, Sicilian street sweets, Ligurian pesto. A national menu is a tourist invention.

Chili is Calabrian and southern; the Po Valley cooks butter and sage. Street Italy is pizza al taglio, arancini and a bakery, not a night-market chili row. Italian cuisine is organised by wine / cheese / salumi and pasta / bread / risotto. Emilia is stuffed pasta and pork; Campania is tomato and pizza; Sicily is Arab-Norman sweets and street food; the Veneto is rice and bitter drinks.

"Italian" in a single trattoria abroad is usually a greatest-hits list from three regions. Olive oil south and centre, butter north. Parmigiano, pecorino, mozzarella di bufala and salumi are the aged wall. Tomato, garlic and wine are the wet pantry. Chili flakes (peperoncino) are a southern habit.

19 belongs to “Great emigration” in . Italian cuisine is not a sentence about taste until that measure is there.19

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