1. Italian cuisine

2. History of Italian cuisine
The Ingredients used in Italian cuisine
Popular dishes in Italian cuisine

3. History of Italian cuisine
- Antiquity:
- Middle ages:
* A cuisine developed in Sicily that some consider the first real Italian cuisine.
- Early modern era:
Antiquity:
Political unrest had a role in Italian cuisine, it was mixture of civilizations like Greeks.
Middle ages:
Italian cuisine was affected by Greeks and Arabs and they introduce new flavors and spices to Italians. And they also learned how to reserve food in olive oil and by getting it dried and adding salt on it to keep it for a long time.
* A cuisine developed in Sicily that some consider the first real Italian cuisine.
Early modern era:
From 18th century they started to write their recipes in books
And now they add wine to their recipes to give a strong flavor.

4. Famous Ingredients used in Italian cuisine
Cheese
Tomato
Olives and oliveoil
Garlic
Mushroom
Rosemary
wine

5. Most popular dishes in Italian cuisine:
PIZZA :
There are 2 types of Italian pizza :
~ Neapolitan
~ Lazio
Pizza was originally invented in Naples, Italy
, and the dish has since become popular in many parts of the world

6. In 1889, during a visit to Naples, Queen Margherita of Italy was served a pizza resembling the colors of the Italian flag, red (tomato), white (mozzarella) and green (basil). This kind of pizza has been named after the Queen as Pizza Margherita

8. 2. PASTA: - How they create pasta: 2. PASTA:
Pasta is a type of noodle and is essential and classic dish
- How they create pasta:
2. PASTA:
Pasta is a type of noodle and is essential and classic dish
- How they create pasta:
In the 1st century: were fine sheets of dough which were fried and were an everyday food.
Then they started drying these dough sheets in Palermo and named it (PASTA).
From 14th and 15th century pasta became popular among the common people.

10. Pasta kinds ~
- There are more then 1300 kinds of pasta.

12. Acrobatic Pizza

13. ~Aysha Abdullah Al-Kaabi ~
“part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
- Mark Twain