Greek Italy: Food
Greek
and Southern Italian cuisine do share many similarities.
Primarily, this is due to the fact that they are two areas
of the Mediterranean situated very near each other, sharing
similar climates and soils...as a result they use and grow
similar products, e.g. olives and olive oil, aubergines,
courgettes, peppers, garlic and tomatoes. This in turn
results in similar dishes and recipes.
There
is also however Greek influence in some Southern Italian
cuisine and vice versa, due also to historical factors;
Greek
occupation in Southern Italy, and Roman occupation in
Greece. For example, when the Romans occupied Greece, many
Greek tutors were employed by rich Roman families for their
children as well as Greek chefs for their kitchens...
There
are also Italian inspired dishes to be found in Greece, such
as
pastitsio
(original Italian dish is called
pasticcio),
a baked pasta dish from Corfu. and
sofrito
, a dish of fried steaks cooked in
a thick, richly flavoured wine sauce.
Other
dishes to be compared, are the Neapolitan dish Parmigiana
(see photo left) to the Greeks'
Moussaka
, (both dishes include layering
similar ingredients such as aubergines, tomato sauce and
cheese),
Pepperonata
from Campania with the
Greeks' salata me psites piperies , (a charred pepper
salad with olives), and Campania's
melanzane a scarpetta (also
know as melanzane a barchetta) to the Greeks'
melitzanes papoutsakia
(stuffed
aubergine halves- the Italian scarpetta and
Greek papoutsakia mean 'shoes' referring to how
they look ).
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