Italian Food Tradition: the Polenta

Compared to the whole world Italy is a reallythe cold winters. It is important to eat polenta
small country but it has a very particular aspectwith a good red wine.
that makes it different: having century of historyThe traditional polenta requires a long preparation
and traditions that gave to Italy a deep variety inthat in the North of Italy becomes almost a
every single region of its territory.family event. The polenta get usually eaten with
Italy is composed of 21 districts and everyone ofmany people or with the whole family so, since
these has his own traditions and dialects andthe early morning they begin to hot water and to
obviously every one has his own food tradition.stir the great quantity of polenta that needs
The main Italian foods worldwide are pasta andhours to be ready to be served.
pizza but if can travel Italy from North to SouthAfter a full morning of skiing it is traditional to
you can taste the local dishes unknown to thedrink wine and to eat the Italian polenta; in the
world.last years to face the taste of more people
For example the North of Italy, during Winterpossible, they started to offer polenta not only
time, has a typical food made just with corn flour,with meat juice but also with mushrooms, without
the polenta. The versatility of polenta allowsjuice, just with cheese or with some nouvelle
Italians to offer it in several ways but the mostcuisine ingredient like rare fish or vegetables.
famous polenta recipe is to serve the authenticIn any case, the traditional polenta remains
Italian polenta on a wood made dish with meatanother precious element of Italian traditions and
juice and sausages with Parmiggiano cheese. Itallows many people to enter in contact with the
needs to be served hot and in the North of Italyhistory of a part of Italy , the North one, full of
is a real tradition eaten almost every day duringhistory and traditions.