Olive Oil And Bread In Italy

One type of bread that my kids always loved are these soft olive oil rolls.
Olive oil and bread in italy. Unfortunately there are many varieties and blends a factor that often makes the daily process of choosing the right one for a particular appetizer salad or entrée rather difficult. Homemade olive oil bread rolls. Italian region northern italy. The dish is called fettunta from fetta slice and unta oily an oily slice.
Chefs food writers and an importer gave us their recommendations on the best olive oils for finishing salads cooking from regular grocery stores and from the usa italy spain and greece. Tasting and smelling the oil perhaps using a special tasting glass or on a slice of warm unsalted bread is the best way to learn how to identify and recognize a good quality extra virgin olive oil and to honour the hard work of the producers. This is just not an italian thing. If you have ever been to italy you are going to know that there are probably more types of bread than pasta over 350 types to be exact.
Butter from reggio emilia rarely found on the table butter never meets bread in italy. Another writer whose thoughts on olive oil are informed by a long tenure in italy is katie parla author of many cookbooks covering the cuisine most recently food of the italian south. Irpinia colline dell ufita dop campania. Except for a breakfast of a slice of toast with butter and marmellata or an after school snack of bread and butter and nutella.
The bread is not dipped in oil. So good and so hard to decide. Well italians do eat bread with extra virgin olive oil on top. Olive oil has been a symbol of italian food and of the history of italian cuisine for the longest time.
In italy bread is not better with butter. Today it has become a staple in the pantry of millions eager to enjoy healthier richer tasting food. And it is especially not an italian thing to add balsamic vinegar to the bowl. A slice of bread is toasted preferably over a flame rubbed while still warm with a halved clove of fresh garlic and placed on a plate.