Ana Maria Da Costa Vasconcellos

Ana Maria da Costa, economist and food expert, lives in Italy since 1983 and writes about Italian food from the inside on her website All About Italian Food

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Italian Risotto

The Italian risotto became known as another Italian typical dish, even if rice isn’t original from Italy as pasta Rice is a cereal as corn or wheat, but less fat and is eaten by half world population

The Mediterranean Diet

The Mediterranean diet has its origins on the countries that face the Mediterranean Sea: Southern Italy, Spain, Greece, Crete, ex-Yugoslavia, Turkey and Tunisia Along their unlucky story plain of hunger and misery, these people were able to set a diet based on their land’s products, mainly vegetarian