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Italians are know all over the world for pizza, pasta and tomato suace, but the diet of Italians is very different in every region of Italy; so we can diversify the cooking of the north by the one of the south.
Italians usually use herbs in cooking like oregano, basil and rosemary.
There are more than 400 types of cheese made in Italy, like parmesan, mozzarella, and asiago.

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From the Middle Age to the XIX century, Italy consisted of separate republics, each with different culinary traditions. These contribuited to the diversity of Italian cuisine.
Italy changed in many ways when it flourished after the second world war. During this time started migration in cities and culinary traditions started to be combined.

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Italians generally eat three meals a day. They eat a light breakfast because their main meal is lunch. Lunch and dinner are similar and during special occasions they consist in an appetizer like bruschetta, a pasta or rice dish like carbonara and tortelli di zucca, a meat or fish dish like fiorentina, vegetables, cheese and fruit or a dessert.

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Regions throughout the country have their own traditional holiday sweets

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Italy is famous in the world for his coffee and for his wine.

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Italian style coffee is called espresso and it's made from a blend of coffee beans. It's usually served in a demitasse cup. They also exist other kind of coffee like caffè macchiato, ristretto, cappuccino, caffelatte, latte macchiato and caffè corretto.

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Italy is both the largest exporter and consumer of wine. Italian government passed aq law to regulate wines' quality. In Italy every city has his own type of wine, in Mantua we have Lambrusco.

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Pizza margherita is a typical Neapolitan pizza, made with San Marzano tomatoes, mozzarella fior di latte, fresh basil. Pizza's toppings want to represent italian flag.
The legend of pizza margherita says that in June 1889 Raffaele Esposito made a dish called ''pizza margherita'' in honor of the queen of Italy, Margherita of Savoy and Italian unification, but this is considered a false history.