| Italian Gourmet cuisine has to do with the | | | | Norway, Sweden, and even France and England |
| territories inside of Italy and how these different | | | | have adopted these traditions. |
| territories prepare unique Italian dishes. For | | | | Another important thing to understand about |
| example more sea faring towns will often use a | | | | Italian cooking is that this rich culture employs the |
| wide variety of gourmet seafood when preparing | | | | use of many different types of vegetables, and |
| dishes, or areas that specialize in olives will employ | | | | some vegetables were not even present in the |
| olives into their cooking above other ingredients. | | | | cooking until the finding of the 'New World'. |
| Cuisine is a word used to describe the particular | | | | Italy uses vegetables such as eggplants, onions, |
| menu of a country or even of a specific area. | | | | herbs, and many other spices. Tomatoes were |
| Breaking the country up into regions will allow a | | | | not even introduced to Italy until explorers |
| cook to better understand the areas and what | | | | brought them back, along with spices and some |
| they are known for and looking at the country of | | | | fresh herbs. |
| Italy as a whole is a good way to understand | | | | It's important to remember what is true traditional |
| what this unique country has to offer in terms of | | | | Italian is something that has grown from years of |
| unique Italian Gourmet Cuisine. | | | | tradition and exploration and has built a cuisine that |
| The whole of Italy is known for its pasta and at | | | | carries the people forth to present day. |
| least in the United States stereotypically not much | | | | Many celebrations are based around Italian |
| of anything else. However this is far from being | | | | Gourmet Cuisine, and it's the job of the master |
| the truth, as much of the food in Italy is as | | | | chef, the connoisseur of gourmet to look for |
| diverse as the people within it. | | | | these rich diverse recipes when searching for the |
| For example, many people do not consider | | | | finest in Italian Gourmet cuisine. |
| seafood as being one of the chief ingredients in | | | | In short, a lot of things come together to build |
| Italian Gourmet cuisine. Seafaring towns will use | | | | the cuisine for a country. As mentioned before |
| mussels, scallops, and many other different types | | | | exploration played a huge part, as well as local |
| of fish in cooking creating a unique cuisine for that | | | | traditions, and local ingredients that were available |
| area. | | | | at the time. |
| Also some areas are not for specializing in rustic | | | | Without the people in these areas putting |
| pot dishes, such as pot luck type dishes, and | | | | together what they had and working had to keep |
| making these the staple of that particular area. | | | | food on the table, Italy would not have some its |
| Some areas have grown out of poverty and | | | | richest and most diverse cuisine. |
| some of the cuisine is based on putting together | | | | It is the ingredients, hard work, and |
| whatever was possible to have food on the table. | | | | transplantation of different foods that have |
| Cuisines grown out of these traditions, and Italy | | | | brought together what is known today as Italian |
| along with many other notable countries such as | | | | Gourmet cuisine. |