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Black truffle

Italian cuisine is well known all over the world for its tasty recipes.
To make them perfectly and astonish your guests you have to learn what are the ingredients we use in Italy and where to buy them.
This page is dedicated to pasta, rice, tomatoes and other vegetables, seafood, molluscs, fish, fruit that are typical in Italy ... all the ingredients you need to make pasta sauce and so serve authentic Italian pasta dishes.
All the ingredients you need to make risotto, pizza, focaccia, polenta, gnocchi, savory cakes (do you know savory cake was born in Italy?) ... in other words ... all our tasty main dishes.
Reading the following pages you'll be able to learn:

  • - how and when to use black truffles to flavor your pasta dishes or frittata
  • - how and when to use the oranges as main ingredient for your savory dishes
  • - what are the best tomatoes to prepare tomato sauce
  • - what are the best flour to prepare handmade bread, egg pasta or pizza dough
  • - what are the best rice to make risotto
  • - the difference between short and long pasta
  • - and much more ...

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