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Menu of Naples - Neapolitan Recipes
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Salsa Marinara
Marinara Sauce
Insalata di Rinforzo
Neapolitan
Cauliflower Salad
Gatto’ di Patate
Potato Mold
Biscotti Rococo’
Spicy Almond Cookies
Pizzelle Fritte
Fried Pizza
Minestra Maritata
(Italian Wedding Soup)
Soup of Meat
and Vegetables
Pesce all’Aqua Pazza
Fish with Lemon and Tomato
Mostaccioli
Southern Italian
Spiced Cookies
Basic Pizza Dough
includes movie
Caprese
Tomatoes and Mozzarella Salad
Pasta Puttanesca
Pasta with olives, capers, and tomatoes
The cooking of the region of Campania seems to symbolize the most stereotypical Italian cooking. Naples is birthplace to pizza, the most popular food on hearth, and it is renowned for the superiority of its pasta, and the many sauces that go with it, such as the tomato Ragu’, the Marinara sauce and the Puttanesca.
Also from here is the Lasagna with Ricotta cheese, steak alla Pizzaiola, Braciole, as well as a variety of desserts like Easter Pastiera, Sfogliatelle, Baba’, Struffoli, and Mostaccioli.
More heavily populated along the coast than inland, where the landscape is mountainous and living is more difficult, Campania is celebrated for the excellence of the tomatoes, the freshness of the fish and seafood, the Buffalo mozzarella cheese, the lemons and the Limoncello of Sorrento.
IL MARUZZARO, (The Clams Seller) Francesco de Boucard, Usi e Costumi di Napoli e Contorni, 1857-1866
Because so many Neapolitans emigrated in the last century, of all the regional Italian styles, it is for sure the best known around the world.
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Pietro Fabris,
The Watermelon Seller at the Harbor,
1740 -1792