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Roman Cuisine
Roman cuisine is the cooking traditions and practices of the Italian city of Rome. It features fresh, seasonal and simply-prepared ingredients from the Roman Campagna.Boni (1930), p. 13 These include peas, globe artichokes and fava beans, shellfish, milk-fed lamb and goat, and cheeses such as ''pecorino romano'' and ricotta.Boni (1930), p. 14 Olive oil is used mostly to dress raw vegetables, while ''strutto'' (pork lard) and fat from prosciutto are preferred for frying. The most popular sweets in Rome are small individual pastries called ''pasticcini'', gelato and handmade chocolates and candies. Special dishes are often reserved for different days of the week; for example, gnocchi is eaten on Thursdays, '' baccalà'' (salted cod) on Fridays and ''trippa'' (offal) on Saturdays. Overview It features fresh, seasonal and simply-prepared ingredients from Roman Campagna. These include peas, globe artichokes and fava beans, shellfish, milk-fed lamb and goat, and cheeses suc ...
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Gnocchi
Gnocchi are a varied family of pasta-like dumplings in Italian cuisine. They are made of small rolls of dough, such as those composed of a simple combination of wheat flour,Buonassisi, recipe #831-833 potato,Buonassisi, recipe #854-857 egg,Buonassisi, recipe #837-838 and salt. Variations of the dish supplement the simple recipe with flavour additives, such as semolina flour,Vincenzo Buonassisi, , Rizzoli 1985, recipe #850-853 cheese,Buonassisi, recipe #839-840 breadcrumbs,Buonassisi, recipe #877 "Al Pien... si tratta di gnocchi, delicatissimi, secondo un'antica ricetta mantovana..." cornmeal or similar ingredients, Waverley Root, , 1971 ''passim''Luigi Carnacina, Luigi Veronelli, (4 vol.), Rizzoli 1966, ''passim''Accademia Italiana della Cucina, , tr. Jay Hyams, Rizzoli, 2009, ''passim'' and possibly including herbs, vegetables, and other ingredients. Base ingredients may be substituted with alternatives such as sweet potatoes for potatoes or rice flour for wheat flour. Such vari ...
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Rigatoni Con La Pajata
''Pagliata'' (or, in Romanesco dialect, ''pajata'') is a traditional Roman dish primarily using the intestine of a young calf (tripe). As it has only eaten milk, the resulting dish is similar to cheese in a sausage casing. It is usually plaited for serving. Characteristic It is of traditional use in Roman cuisine. ''Pajata'' is the term for the small intestine and its contents of an unweaned calf, i.e., fed only on its mother's milk. The intestines are cleaned and skinned, but the chyme is left inside. The intestine is cut into pieces 20–25 cm long, which are bound together with white thread, forming rings. When cooked, the combination of heat and the enzyme rennet in the intestines coagulates the chyme and creates a sort of thick, creamy, cheese-like sauce. These rings can be served simply seasoned and grilled (''pajata arrosto'') or in the traditional Roman dish in which ''pajata'' is stewed in a typical tomato sauce and served with rigatoni.Boni, p. 150. ''Pagliat ...
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Rigatoni
Rigatoni (, ) is a type of pasta. They are larger than penne and ziti, and sometimes slightly curved, but not as curved as elbow macaroni. Rigatoni are characterized by ridges along their length, sometimes spiraling around the tube; unlike penne, the ends of rigatoni are cut perpendicular to the tube walls instead of diagonally. The word ' comes from the Italian word ''rigato'' (that stands for 'lined', 'striped', 'ruled', ''rigatone'' being the augmentative, and ''rigatoni'' the plural form), which means ' ridged' or 'lined', and is associated with the cuisine of southern and central Italy. ''Rigatoncini'' are a smaller version, close to the size of penne. Their name takes on the diminutive suffix ' (pluralized ''-ini''), denoting their relative size. Rigatoni is a particular favourite pasta shape in the south of Italy, especially in Sicily Sicily (Italian language, Italian and ), officially the Sicilian Region (), is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea ...
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Arrabbiata
Arrabbiata sauce, known in Italian as ''arrabbiata'' (''arabbiata'' in Romanesco dialect), is a spicy sauce made with tomatoes, garlic, ''peperoncino'', parsley, and extra virgin olive oil. The sauce originates from the Lazio region of Italy, and particularly from the city of Rome. Origin of the name ''Arrabbiata'' literally means 'angry' in Italian; in Romanesco dialect the adjective ''arabbiato'' denotes a characteristic (in this case spiciness) pushed to excess.Ravaro (2005), p. 86, ''sub voce''. In Rome, in fact, any food cooked in a pan with a lot of oil, garlic, and ''peperoncino'' so as to provoke a strong thirst is called "''arrabbiato''" (e.g. ''broccoli arrabbiati''). History The invention of the dish dates back to the 1950s and 1960s, at a time when spicy food was in vogue in Roman cuisine.Carnacina (1975), p. 81. The dish has been celebrated several times in Italian movies, notably in Marco Ferreri's '' La Grande Bouffe'' (1973) and Federico Fellini's '' Roma'' (197 ...
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Amatriciana
Amatriciana sauce, known in Italian as ''amatriciana'' (''matriciana'' in Romanesco dialect),Ravaro (2005), p. 395. is a sauce made with tomatoes, guanciale (cured pork cheek), ''pecorino romano'' cheese, black pepper, extra virgin olive oil, dry white wine, and salt. Originating in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Amatrice (in the mountainous province of Rieti of the Lazio region), the amatriciana is one of the best known pasta sauces in present-day Roman and Italian cuisine. The Italian government has named it a '' prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale'' (PAT) of Lazio, and ''amatriciana tradizionale'' is registered as a traditional speciality guaranteed (TSG) in the EU and the UK. Development Amatriciana derives from a dish called ''pasta alla gricia''. The origin of the word ''gricia'' is unclear. In papal Rome, the ''grici'' were sellers of common edible foods,Ravaro (2005), p. 329. who got this name because many of them came from Valtellina, at that time a possession of ...
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Carbonara
Carbonara () is a pasta dish made with Adipose tissue, fatty Curing (food preservation), cured pork, Types of cheese#Hard cheese, hard cheese, Eggs as food, eggs, salt, and black pepper. It is typical of the Lazio region of Italy. The dish took its modern form and name in the middle of the 20th century. The cheese used is usually . Some variations use Parmesan, Grana Padano, or a combination of cheeses. Spaghetti is the most common pasta, but bucatini or rigatoni are also used. While guanciale, a cured pork jowl, is traditional, some variations use pancetta, and lardons of smoked bacon are a common substitute outside Italy. Origin and history As with many recipes, the origins of the dish and its name are obscure; most sources trace its origin to the region of Lazio. The dish forms part of a family of dishes consisting of pasta with cured pork, cheese, and pepper, one of which is . It is very similar to , a dish dressed with melted lard and a mixture of eggs and cheese, but not ...
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Lazio
Lazio ( , ; ) or Latium ( , ; from Latium, the original Latin name, ) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy, administrative regions of Italy. Situated in the Central Italy, central peninsular section of the country, it has 5,714,882 inhabitants and a GDP of more than €212 billion per year, making it the country's second most populated region and second largest regional economy after Lombardy. The capital of Lazio is Rome, which is the capital city of Italy. Lazio was the home of the Etruscan civilization, then stood at the center of the Roman Republic, of the Roman Empire, of the Papal States, of the Kingdom of Italy and of the Italian Republic. Lazio boasts a rich cultural heritage. Great artists and historical figures lived and worked in Rome, particularly during the Italian Renaissance period. In remote antiquity, Lazio (''Latium'') included only a limited part of the current region, between the lower course of the Tiber, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Monti Sabini and the Pontine M ...
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Guanciale
Guanciale () is an Italian salt-cured meat product prepared from pork jowl or cheeks. Its name is derived from , meaning 'cheek'. Its rendered fat gives flavour to and thickens the sauce of pasta dishes. Production Guanciale is usually rubbed with just salt and ground black pepper by cooks in Rome, but some producers use other spices, herbs, or red pepper, and sometimes garlic. It is cured for three weeks or until it loses approximately 30% of its original weight. Its flavour is stronger than that of other pork products, such as pancetta, and its texture is more delicate. When cooked, the fat typically melts away. In cuisine Guanciale may be cut and eaten directly in small portions, but is often used as an ingredient in pasta dishes such as and sauces such as . republication of ''La Buona Vera Cucina Italiana'', 1966. It is a specialty of central Italy, particularly Umbria and Lazio. Pancetta, a cured Italian bacon that is normally not smoked, is sometimes used as a substi ...
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Tripe
Tripe is a type of edible lining from the stomachs of various farm animals. Most tripe is from cattle and sheep. Types Beef Beef tripe is made from the muscle wall (the interior mucosal lining is removed) of a cow's stomach chambers: the rumen (blanket/flat/smooth tripe), the reticulum (honeycomb and pocket tripe), and the omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe). Abomasum (reed) tripe is seen less frequently, owing to its glandular tissue content. Other animals Tripe refers to cow (beef) stomach, but includes stomach of any ruminant including cattle, sheep, deer, antelope, goat, ox, giraffes, and their relatives. , the related Spanish word, refers to culinary dishes produced from the small intestines of an animal. In some cases, other names have been applied to the tripe of other animals. For example, tripe from pigs may be referred to as ''paunch'', ''pig bag'', or '' hog maw''. Washed tripe Washed tripe is more typically known as dressed tripe. To dress the tripe, the sto ...
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Baccalà
Dried and salted cod, sometimes referred to as salt cod or saltfish or salt dolly, is cod which has been preserved by drying after salting. Cod which has been dried without the addition of salt is stockfish. Salt cod was long a major export of the North Atlantic region, and has become an ingredient of many cuisines around the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean. Dried and salted cod has been produced for over 500 years in Newfoundland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. It is also produced in Norway, where it is called klippfisk, literally "cliff-fish". Traditionally, it was dried outdoors by the wind and sun, often on cliffs and other bare rock-faces. Today, ''klippfisk'' is usually dried indoors with the aid of electric heaters. History Salt cod formed a vital item of international commerce between the New World and the Old, and formed one leg of the so-called triangular trade. Thus, it spread around the Atlantic and became a traditional ingredient not only in Northern Euro ...
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Fava Beans
''Vicia faba'', commonly known as the broad bean, fava bean, or faba bean, is a species of vetch, a flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated as a crop for human consumption, and also as a cover crop. Varieties with smaller, harder seeds that are fed to horses or other animals are called field bean, tic bean or tick bean. This legume is commonly consumed in many national and regional cuisines. Some people suffer from favism, a hemolytic response to the consumption of broad beans, a condition linked to a metabolic disorder known as G6PDD. Otherwise the beans, with the outer seed coat removed, can be eaten raw or cooked. With young seed pods, the outer seed coat can be eaten, and in very young pods, the entire seed pod can be eaten. Description ''Vicia faba'' is a stiffly erect, annual plant tall, with two to four stems that are square in cross-section. The leaves are long, pinnate with 2–7 leaflets, and glaucous (grey-green). U ...
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