All about Italy By:Anja
Italy Foods Pasta Since the time of Cato, basic pasta dough has been made mostly of wheat flour or semolina,[]with durum wheat used predominantely in the South of Italy and soft wheat in the North. Regionally other grains have been used, including those from barley, buckwheat, rye, rice and maize, as well as chestnut and chickpea flours. In modern times to meet the demands of both health conscious and oeliarc sufferers the use of rice, maize and whole durum wheat has become commercially significant. Grain flours may also be supplemented with cooked potatoes. Beyond hens' eggs and water, liquids have included duck eggs, milk or cream, olive or walnut oil, wine, ink from octopus, squid or cuttlefish, and even pigs' blood. Other additions to the basic flour-liquid mixture may include vegetables purees such as spinach or tomato, mushrooms, cheeses, herbs, spices and other seasonings. While pastas are, most typically, made from unleavened doughs, the use of yeast-raised doughs are also known for at least nine different pasta forms
Lasagna •
Lasagne calde, calde le lasagne, caldeee!!! Forty years ago, you could always hear those words— which mean “hot lasagna, hooooot lasagna”— bellowed from the busy platform of the Bologna railway station as the train pulled in. Though lasagne vendors are no longer seen (or heard) today, Lasagne alla Bolognese remains the most famous version—in Italy and throughout Europe —of this beloved dish of Bolognese cuisine. There are countless regional variations of lasagne—in Italian, the plural form, with an “e” at the end, is always as used—exemplifying how a traditional dish transforms and evolves over time. Though ingredients vary according to place and local custom, as you’ll see in the descriptions and recipes that follow, the unique form and character of lasagne remain the same: layers of noodles, flat or curly, separated by layers of exquisitely prepared sauces, meat, fish, or vegetables—all building up into one glorious baked edifice. The comfort and satisfaction a plate of hot lasagne provides makes it one of the most appreciated
Italy Foods Pizza
Coffee
• • In restaurants, pizza can be baked in an oven with stone bricks above the heat source, an electric deck oven, a conveyor belt oven or, in the case of more expensive restaurants, a wood- or coal-fired brick oven. On deck ovens, the pizza can be slid into the oven on a long paddle, called a peel, and baked directly on the hot bricks or baked on a screen (a round metal grate, typically aluminum). When made at home, it can be baked on a pizza stone in a regular oven to reproduce the effect of a brick oven. Another option is grilled pizza, in which the crust is baked directly on a barbecue grill. Greek pizza, like Chicago-style pizza, is baked in a pan rather than directly on the bricks of the pizza oven.
It would be hard to think of Italy without coffee. After all it is the national breakfast and the home to coffee drinks that have taken the rest of the world by storm. Without Italy, Starbucks would not exist and without coffee, Italy would grind to a halt. No, coffee was not invented in Italy but coffee culture as we know it did originate here. Today Italy is a country of coffee aficionados who will not tolerate (or visit) an establishment that has bad coffee. Italians will even skip coffee in a restaurant to have one at a favorite bar, it is just that important. •
Italy Foods Wine • is home to some of the oldest wine-producing regions in the world and is the world's second largest wine producer behind France.[1] Italian wine is exported around the world and is also extremely popular in Italy: Italians rank fifth on the world wine consumption list by volume with 42 litres per capita consumption. Grapes are grown in almost every region of the country and there are more than one million vineyards under cultivation.
Italy games La Bella Lavanderina
John My Pony •
• John My Pony is an outdoor or indoor game in which six players of equal strength form opposite teams. One of the teams assembles a "pony" with their bodies on their hands and knees. Once accomplished, the players making the creature close their eyes. The opposite side sends a few players to sit on the others who must guess how many players are sitting on the pony.
La Bella Lavanderina, or The Beautiful Washerwoman, is an outdoor or indoor ring-around-the-rosey-type game. One child is chosen to be the little washerwoman who stands in the center of the ring that the children form around the child. The child in the center of the ring acts as a woman washing clothes while the children sing this rhyme, "The pretty little washerwoman who washes the handkerchiefs for the poor people of the town. Make a jump! Make another one! Twirl around and do it again! Look up! Look down! Give a kiss to whom you want!" The washerwoman performs the actions in the rhyme. (The word "tap" can be substituted for "kiss" in a school setting.) With a tap, the washerwoman chooses the next child to stand in the circle.
Italy games La Bella Lavandes-
Lupa Della Ore •
• Cencio Mollo is either an indoor or outdoor game that is played with a wet handkerchief. The object of the game is to not laugh. It is a variation of the game "Throwing the Smiles." All the players sit in a circle and one child is chosen to be 'It'. This child holds the damp handkerchief and walks around the circle until coming to one child, then declares "The Cencio Mollo has come to you." The chosen child replies, "Let it come. I shall not cry, laugh or kiss it." The It-child then puts the handkerchief on the other player's face. If this child does not smile, then the handkerchief is place on other players until someone smiles. The child that smiles is penalized by having to perform various actions such as acting like a monkey or reciting the alphabet or singing a song
Lupa Della Ore is an outdoor game known in other countries as "What time is it, Mr. Wolf?" One player is chosen to be Mr. Wolf. This person stands about 5 yards away from the other children and does not initially face them. The children facing Mr. Wolf shout out, "What time is it, Mr. Wolf?" Mr. Wolf turns around and says a time, for example, "3 o'clock." The children facing Mr. Wolf take three steps. This verbal give and take continues until the children are close to Mr. Wolf. They ask again what time it is and eventually Mr. Wolf replies "Time to eat you!" and begins to chase the children. When Mr. Wolf catches a child, that person becomes the new Mr. Wolf.
Italy games Bimbo
• Bimbo is an outdoor game. One player is chosen to be the bimbo or leader. That person is given two small green leaves. The other children stand in two lines facing each other about 15-feet apart. All the players hold their hands cupped behind their backs. The bimbo walks slowly behind the lines and silently drops a leaf in one player's hands, then walks on. The player holds the leaf without indicating possession. The bimbo crosses to the other line and drops a leaf in another player's hands. The bimbo continues walking and then suddenly calls out "Stop! Thief! Lucky Leaf!" The two players who hold the leaves run as fast as possible to the opposite side. Each of the two players drop a leaf into another child's palms before the bimbo can catch them. The person who gets the leaf tries to pass it to a person near them before the bimbo can catch them. A person who is caught with the leaf is the new bimbo.
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