I love food from Italy, or Italian cuisine!
me too! I'm all about pizza and pasta :)
Pasta, vegetables, olive oil and fish are all a major part of Italian cuisine. I'd assume pizza is too.
fish? i didn't think Italians eat a lot of fish
They actually do! They use shrimp in many of their pastas along with calamari. They also make many pastas with clam sauce.
that's really interesting. I didn't know that! I've never even heard of clam sauce
There are two varieties - White, with minced clams, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice and parsley. Or you can get red, which is usually a thin tomato sauce with minced clams. 
that makes me really hungry!
copied in the world. It influenced several cuisines around the world, chiefly that of the United States.
Italian cuisine is generally characterized by its simplicity, with many dishes having only two to four main ingredients. Italian cooks rely chiefly on the quality of the ingredients rather than on elaborate preparation. Ingredients and dishes vary by region. Many dishes that were once regional have proliferated with variations throughout the country.
History.
Italian cuisine has developed over the centuries. Although the country known as Italy did not unite until
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