Italian/ spanish cooking (book) blogg post #5

Blog Post # 5
1.Italian Cooking for Beginners,  Alice Schryver,  chapter 1. The Delectable Country

2. -Food historians agree that Italy is the mother of European cooking
- Catherine de' Medici left Florence Italy to marry the duke of Orleans, brought her culinary staff and they started the famous Fernch cusine.
- A lot of the stories of how dishes came depend on the country's history, terrain, and climate.
-Olive trees are abundant in the south of Italy, so olive oil is important to their daily life.
- Milk is availble in the North but there is no olive trees so they use butter.
- People in the past have been seperated politically and geographically.
- The Regions cultures are clearly all different from each other. Bologna dishes are bolognese and Milan dishes are Milanese

In the book, Alice claims that Italy is the one of the founders of European foods. She says that French cooking, in away, evoloved from Italian cooking.  Many of the different foods came from different regions. So, a lot of them, are different based on where they are from. This reminds me of how a lot of America has a lot of Italian influence and that we have a lot of different types of foods.