Perhaps more than any other type of national cuisine, Italian food is revered and beloved around the world. The country’s propensity for pastas, soft spot for sauces, and adoration for appetizers (or rather, hors d’oeuvres) have combined to make Italian food a theme that countless restaurants and home chefs everywhere try to recreate. You can even learn the art of Italian cooking from Udemy, through our acclaimed “Cooking in Italian” course. By default, the class is taught mostly in Italian, to help you cultivate the most exotic and authentic cuisine experience possible, though English translation is available.
However, while the Italian food tradition has successfully spread its tendrils everywhere – from fast food joints like Fazolis to chain restaurants like Olive Garden, all the way to more authentic (and expensive) luxury restaurants in seemingly every city in North America – countless facts about Italian cuisine remain unknown or misunderstood by the general public. Here are just a few of them.