Regional Variations of Italian Cooking

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Italian cooking is today a popular form of cuisine in many countries. Yet, you need to be clear about what actually is Italian cuisine? Which food is truly Italian? Italy as a country was born only after its unification in the nineteenth century; yet the fare known as Italian cuisine had evolved much earlier. It probably originated in Sicily and came under the influences of the Greeks, Arabs and the Germanic tribes.

The uniqueness of Italian cuisine lies in the fact that it was able to absorb all these diverse influences to create a culinary school that is typically Italian. However, the diversity is well represented in the different types of regional variation that can be noticed in the traditional Italian cooking.
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The Great Dairy Debate – The Pros and Cons of Dairy

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I’ve never been much of a milk drinker so giving it up wasn’t a big sacrifice. Cheese, however, is another story. I love cheese. I mean really love it. But after doing some research on the treatment of dairy cows I’ve decided that if I’m to make a difference at all and try to make some changes to how these animals are treated, I needed to give up cheese too, along with yogurt and ice cream.

According to GoVeg, “The 9 million cows living on dairy farms in the United States spend most of their lives in large sheds or on feces-caked mud lots, where disease is rampant. Cows raised for their milk are repeatedly impregnated. Their babies are taken away so that humans can drink the milk intended for the calves. When their exhausted bodies can no longer provide enough milk, they are sent to slaughter and ground up for hamburgers.”
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