Hi everybody and welcome back to my
channel! Today's video is gonna be about
food, and about the differences between
Italy and the USA.
First difference I noticed is that in Italy we use a lot
of olive oil
Here instead not even everyone has olive oil in the house
they just use butter.
They use a lot of butter for everything.
Just an example, they put butter on top of sweet potatoes
on top of pancakes, even if butter is already inside the pancakes
They have toasts with butter
while instead in Italy you
may have bread with olive oil and
also for example if you want to make an
egg you're not gonna put olive oil in
the pan but you're gonna use butter and
so yeah they just use butter for everything.
Then for example for salads
and vegetables is a condiment in Italy we
use olive oil, maybe vinegar, salt. Here
instead they use a lot of sauces and
dressings like for example ranch it's a
very common typical sauce that they use
for example with vegetables and salads and
also Italian dressing that's something
they call it's not Italian of course but
they call the so and then of course they
have a lot of other sauces like where's
my barbecue sauce for meat and other
stuff like that they love guacamole and
other sauces where you can dip
chips and tortillas
Here people don't really have a time to eat
In Italy is very important. You're gonna have
breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and that's
something that you're not gonna skip
there's a time for lunch, usually like, at
least for me, is around maybe one or two
if I'm like at school and then you're
gonna have dinner around 8:30. Here
instead you don't really have a time
usually dinner is like very early
like at 5:00, 5:30, maybe 6:00
but anyways no one really cares. You
just eat when you're hungry and you have
snacks. And also another important
thing... in Italy meals are very important
I said it already, so especially for dinner if it's
like during the week you're gonna set
the table, everyone is gonna sit at the
table, you're gonna have dinner together.
It's an occasion to talk, to enjoy food, and
that's it. Here instead they hardly hardly ever set the table, they are just gonna
prepare something for dinner and have it
in the kitchen maybe or sometimes even
standing. In Italy, especially if you go
to a restaurant and you wanna like a full
meal, you're gonna have an appetizer or a
starter, then first dish, which can be
pasta, rice or soup, then second dish which can
be meat, fish, or something else with a
side dish maybe, and then dessert, fruit,
maybe coffee, and liquor. And that's a
very like that's a full meal. Here
instead when you go to a restaurant
or even at home you're gonna have one
dish. Then pizza
of course American pizza is completely
different than Italian pizza. Here they don't
really use mozzarella cheese to put on
top, but it's like a different type of
cheese and I feel like the dough it's
different too, and the condiments too
Here the most common pizza is
pepperoni pizza, which is not pizza with
peppers, but it's pizza with sort of
like spicy salami. Also they put chicken
on top of pizza and, even if I have never
seen it here, I know that people also use
pineapple on top of pizza and I know
that's like an insult for Italians but that's it.
But what I wanted to say is
that here you're not gonna see people
eating a whole pizza. If it's like a
normal pizza, you're gonna eat half of it
or maybe like a few slices and I can get
when you order the family size pizza
when for example you are with
friends. We have that in Italy too
and then you're gonna have just one or
two slices. Or, what in Italy we call
baby pizzas for children, that's the only pizza you're gonna eat whole.
Homemade. When people here say homemade it doesn't
mean that they
really made it and prepared
it. For example, people say homemade cake
but they mean that they use pre-made
cake mix: the boxes where you just have
to add oil, water, and eggs, and you just
put it in the oven and it's ready
If you really want to mean that you prepared it all by
yourself, you have to say from scratch
and also you saw it or if you haven't
just go to my previous video the one
at Wegmans. I show you the cookie dough.
that's because here people tend to use a
lot of all ready-made food where you
just have to put in the microwave and
it's ready. For example mac in mac and
cheese. A lot of people eat pre-made mac
and cheese, for example at school. It's
just these boxes where there's like shrinked
very little pasta, and it's like squished together, and then you have to put
water, put it in the microwave, and your mac
and cheese is ready. And it's like disgusting.
Also I'm never gonna
use the cake mixes. I love baking and for
me using cake mixes it's like no you
make my heart break but that's fine
that's just me maybe In Italy if you
want to eat something but you don't
really have time or you don't want to
you're just gonna put on some water to boil
so you can have some pasta or you're
gonna open the fridge and do something
very quickly. Here instead if they don't
have time or they don't want to cook
they're gonna go out to eat because here
is like it doesn't take that much time
is in Italy. If you go to restaurant in
Italy
we're known for slow food so maybe it takes
hours. Going to a restaurant is an
occasion to spend time with friends or
family and talk and enjoy good food.
Instead here it's normal to go out to
eat, it doesn't take that much, even if
it's not a fast food. And another thing,
on the go. People here eat a lot of food
on the go so maybe they're just gonna
have something. A coffee or not even not
only a coffee like real food too- you're
gonna buy it and maybe bring it to
school and eat it there, or while they
drive, or while they walk.
In Italy food is very important, is a big part of our
culture. Maybe we're too obsessed with food.
But at the same time that's like
really important. Here instead they don't
have a real tradition of food. Of course they have typical
dishes, but at the same time American
food is like a mix of other cultures
they took parts of other cultures, mixed
them together, and made their own versions
of food. Which is not wrong, I mean that's
what they do,  what they are.
So here for example you can eat a lot of Mexican
food, and not only. You have food from all
over the world, and at the same time that
doesn't mean that American food is bad.
A lot of people think that American food is
crap, and of course they have junk food
too but I really have to say that there are
very good restaurants, and very good recipes.
That's kinda of the same reason
why if you're Italian and you come to
the USA and you want to eat Italian food.
Don't. Or at least don't if you really
expect to real Italian food, because
you're just gonna eat the American
version of Italian food, which at the
same time it's fair because the food
they have here is the one that Italian immigrants brought to America
in the 60s and so then Americans of course
changed the recipes, rearranged them and
so now they havetheir own
version of Italian food. So for example
that's why they have like recipes that
in Italy we don't even know what they are:
spaghetti and meatballs, spaghetti bolognese
fettuccine alfredo, and other things
that are not really Italian
And what's funny is that I went twice to
Italian restaurants here, and the people
who I was with, asked me if what I was
eating really tasted Italian, and I was
like "I've never had this in Italy but I
guess it could taste Italian"
As the last thing: baking. Baking drives me crazy
here. It's because if I want to prepare
something from like my own recipe I have
to convert everything like all the
ingredients that's because here for
example they don't have grams and
kilograms.They don't even have meters and
celsius. So when you put something in
the oven you're gonna convert from
Celsius to Fahrenheit and grams to
ounces, or if you bake or if you're
preparing something to eat you're gonna
convert grams or milligrams to cups and
teaspoons, tablespoon. These for example
are cups. You use 1 cup, half a cup,
1/3 of a cup, 1/4, 1/8. And then you have
for like little quantities, you have
tablespoon, teaspoon, an eigth of a
teaspoon,  a fourth of a teaspoon. So this
was everything for today, I hope you
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