From pasta with ketchup to pizza with fruit, here are 4 common places on Italian cuisine abroad to dispel.

It is synonymous with taste, creativity and great love for quality ingredients (not surprisingly envy us all over the world) and is able to satisfy the palate of the most demanding tourists: Italian cuisine is a true planetary excellence! However, especially abroad, it is often associated with misleading commonplaces that reinvent it with unlikely combinations, often labelled as Made in Italy.
Today, therefore, we have an important task to restore dignity to our beloved cuisine: to discover together 4 false myths and commonplaces that depopulate abroad about Italian cuisine. We are ready, and you?

Pasta is not a side dish

During a holiday abroad, you may have had the chance to order a fried chicken or steak and see them served with salad, potatoes and... the pasta has been roasted and cooked in advance.
Let's immediately make the first false myth about Italian cuisine abroad: pasta is not a side dish, it is a complete dish, our first dish par excellence! I can't treat it as a co-star! ὠ9

Pizza is not stuffed with fruit

We are accustomed to Italian creativity that stuff pizza with an incredible quantity of ingredients to satisfy any need, even the most particular.
But abroad everything can happen, even to see the pizza arrive with pineapple and ham.
Here is another common place on Italian cuisine abroad: pizza can NOT be stuffed with anything.

Ketchup is not a pasta sauce

From Amatriciana to angry, from ragout to Bolognese sauce, right up to simple tomato and basil.
The pasta in Italy can be seasoned with an infinite quantity of red sauces with a different degree of difficulty in the preparation. But Ketchup is not one of them! No, just not.

Cappuccino is not a digestive ingredient

Another great false myth about Italian cuisine is linked to cappuccino. Smoking, delicious, with milk steamed, it is one of the greatest protagonists of Italian breakfast and not after lunch. So ok al cappuccino after a croissant, but not after a steak or in the company of a pizza.

But the list might not stop at four commonplaces about Italian cuisine because we also have: the long carbonara with cream, pastasciutta with chicken (submerged under a mountain of cheese), Alfredo fettuccine and spaghetti with meatball (ppette), four preparations that the rest of the world is angry but that we have no intention of adopting?9