The Italian Language

The Italian language has given us a number of words related to food, some of which cannot be translated, others which have been adapted to other languages. Among the main ones are, together with an English translation, where there is one.

We cannot really speak of Italian cooking in the same way we speak of French haute cuisine, but instead we can speak of several regional Italian styles of cooking which have become known over the entire Peninsula thanks to the unification of Italy.

Maybe the best example is Pizza, which was at first a dish from Campania, but which spread over the whole country and eventually became known over the entire world.