Italian cuisine
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Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Roman times, and later spread around the world together with waves of
Clockwise from top left: Neapolitan pizza, carbonara, espresso, and gelato
A Roman mosaic depicting a banquet during a hunting trip, from the Late Roman Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily
Apicius, De re coquinaria (On the Subject of Cooking), 1709 edition
A restored medieval kitchen inside Verrucole Castle, Tuscany
Mediterranean cuisine
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Mediterranean cuisine is the food and methods of preparation used by the people of the Mediterranean basin. The idea of a Mediterranean cuisine originates with the cookery writer Elizabeth David's A B
Italian cuisine
…Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Roman times, and later spread around the world together with…
Bread, wine, and fruit: The Lunch by Diego Velázquez, c. 1617
"Those blessed lands of sun and sea and olive trees": a landscape in Rhodes, in the Eastern Mediterranean
Olive (Olea europaea)
Wheat (Triticum)