Travel Guide to Rome

This is an HD movie to Rome is an excellent guide to this eternal city. It recommends the best times to go to Rome and what to see when you are there. Really good travel guide to Rome.

More on the Food of Italy

Since I just wrote an article on the Foods of Italy, here's a YouTube video which shows more about the foods of Italy. Enjoy and I don't blame you if you are hungry already! Read my previous article here

The Food of Italy

It is unavoidable when you go to Italy - the fantastic cuisine of the country. Italian food is more than just pizza and spaghetti, much more. And even those two things, pizza and spaghetti are different from what we eat in North America. The pizza in Italy is richer in taste, healthier and has a thinner crust. Spaghetti? well, that's just the basics. There is so much more to pasta than this.

The food of Italy differs throughout the regions of Italy. Northern cuisine is different from what they serve up on the tables of southern Italy. One thing that's for sure: Italy cuisine is healthy and not as fattening as you'd think. Not only is the food one of the greatest things in Italy. It is the home of some of the best coffees in the world, hence the numerous cafes and coffee bars throughout the land. And of course, don't forget Italian wines. Italy is famous for her wines and makes the best. The countryside is replete with the vineyards of Italy and the climate of this wonderful country makes it a great place to grow all kinds of grapes.

Not only will you eat Italian style pizza, real spaghetti and thousands of other types of pastas, you will eat lots of Italian bread and plenty of seafood in the way of fresh fish. The Italians love their food, it is, besides soccer, their national passion. Also Italy has one of the healthiest diets in the world - better known as the Mediterranean style of eating. In Rome, you'll eat gnocchi, batter friend artichoke hearts, fava bean salads, spaghetti alla Carbonara. In the north east region, on your vacation in Tuscany, you'll drink the famous Tuscan wines and eat such foods as mussels, squid, scallops, Carpaccio, Brodo de Pesce. All delicious, healthy foods, rather wonderful. In the north west, you'll dine on Trenette al pesto, Bresaola (slices of raw curred beef) and Spinaci all Piemontese, a blend of spinach, anchovies, butter and garlic. Absolutely fantastic.

These are just some of the highlights of your vacation to Italy. Writing about Italy without discussing the food of Italy would be missing one half of this beautiful country. Don't miss the food, the coffee or the marvelous wines.