If someone asks you, why would you like to take a trip to Italy? Probably your first response would be to try the delicious cuisine including their infamous pizza. Italy is a beautiful country with breathtaking scenery and architecture, a rich culture, and an impressive history, but Italian cuisine is a source of national pride. Italy’s fragrant and fresh gastronomy is known and loved around the world. Complex and strong, but at the same time simple and subtle. Specitality changes from one region to another. In Naples for example Pizza is King. Pasta on the other hand is another story.

The perfect example of the beauty of simplicity… the simple combination of eggs, flour, water, olive oil, and salt gives us more than 400 styles of pasta! Some of the most popular types of pasta are fettuccine, spaghetti, penne, and tagliatelle. Each region in Italy has its own signature style: Tuscany houses the best pappardelle and Rome the fettuccine. Pasta may be prepared in a variety of ways: creamy, with pesto, with fresh tomato sauce, or even stuffed. But certainly, one of the most popular pasta dishes in Italy, especially in Rome, is Spaghetti a la Carbonara made with guanciale, egg, pecorino cheese, and black pepper.