Talking about Italian Food

Italian cooking is often associated with bold romanticism, saucy and self-indulgent food. Going to an Italian restaurant has (or at least should have) a certain sensuous element to it; an ideal setting is quiet, almost private, dimly lit, along with a good selection of wines and champagnes, faint tasteful music in the background, and the promise of a few unchaste sweets to round off the night. There is nothing worse than ordering, for example, a pasta dish, only to have your expectations destroyed by a tasteless sludge (totally revoking any knowledge of the term ‘al dente’), drenched in olive oil and caked in Sainsbury’s pesto sauce. Genuine, traditional Italian food is renowned for its rich, qualities. The flavours should be quite simply dancing amongst your p View the rest of this article