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Pasta is one of the most, if not the most, used ingredients in Italian cooking, which is part of the Mediterranean diet. Now I am giving a few tips or advice in order to cook and use properly pasta.

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Bruschetta is typically used as a starter. The recipe: take a slice (about 3/4 of an inch thick) of Italian bread (the one with a crunchy crust). Cut in half a clove of garlic and rub the bread with the flat surface of one half garlic’s clove (rub both sides of the bread). Toast it in a barbeque or a grille; it should be lightly burned on both sides. Add some olive oil (extra virgin or regular, your choice) and serve it still warm.

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Many of my friends have asked me to publish a few of my tasty recipes and in order to do so I decided to use my blog. Please note that these are real Italian food recipes and don’t follow the usual format used for recipes.

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Italy is well know for pasta and pizza. We have many different kind of pasta. Since my family is in part from Tuscany and in part from Emilia Romagna, my cooking style is greatly influenced by my heritage. I don’t like steaks in general, and for this reason I do my best with other stuff such as: pasta, pizza, chicken and fish (with or without shells).

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Have you ever eaten in an Italian restaurant in the US? 99% of the time you ate everything but Italian. What about Italian Food Books? The situation is not much better.

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This is not really a recipe, but a suggestion about pizza. In the US pizza is made using the so called “Marinara Sauce”.

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Here we are! Many Americans know Bruschetta very well and love it; unfortunately the pronunciation is completely wrong (I heard the correct pronunciation only once on the TV show “Everybody Loves Raymond”).

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