A World-Famous Cuisine

To many people outside of Italy, ‘Italian cuisine’ is basically Neapolitan cooking, and most especially pizza. This is partly because many of the Italian immigrants all around the world came from the city of Naples and its environs. When these ambitious migrants opened restaurants in their new countries, they naturally served the style of food they loved and knew best: the cooking of Naples and Campania. However, there is much more to the central region than Naples. Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise and the island of Sardinia all have their own traditions of making delicious dishes using local ingredients, including tender lamb from the sheep trails of Abruzzo, fresh fish from the Campania coastline, gutsy pasta sauces and offal from Rome, and speciality Sardinian desserts.