• Fresh food than people prepare and serve on the street = street food

• Food prepared and cooked in a certain way = boiler, fried, grilled...

• A food or drink than a person or restaurant is well-known for, that you can't always get in other places = typical food

• Part of a meal, e.g. a starter or a dessert = course food

• Pizza is a typical Italian food. It's a special recipe for that country

• I only eat fried fish. It's the best way to cook it!

• I don't like spicy food because it has a strong, hot taste

• I enjoy eating fresh fruit because it isn't old

• I always say food is good when it taste very good

-The specialties of my region are: focaccia from Bari, taralli, panzerotti, puccia, orecchiette with turnip greens, rice, potatoes and mussels, pasticciotti, sibille and many others.

• Do you like street food? What's your favorite food?

-Unfortunately, I can no longer eat street food due to intolerances, but as far as I remember my favorite street food was the McDonald's

• How often do you eat vegetarian food? What dishes do you like?

-I'm not a vegetarian but I almost always eat vegetarian food because I don't like meat. My favorite vegetarian food is couscous with vegetables

from: Noemi

subject: food from the region

Hi Anna, today I'm going to buy the "sibille", a typical food from my region; Puglia. Sibilla is a round dessert that contains an almond cream inside, while on the surface it has a dark chocolate shell. Its flavor vaguely resembles that of Salento fructone, but it still remains a completely unique product. The recipe, however, is unknown, in fact the sibyls are only found in Zollino, in the province of Lecce, so called due to a particular belief...The Sibyl, in fact, was a mythological figure with divinatory properties typical of the Greek and Etruscan periods. A woman who lived in mysterious caves and in whose presence prophecies about the future were asked: to avoid misfortunes, sweets were brought to the mystic and legend has it that these small preparations were precisely one of these homages. they are usually eaten for breakfast but you can also eat them after lunch, with a coffee... basically whenever you want. Now I'm going to buy them, bye bye.

What is the typical food of your region?

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