

DID YOU KNOW?
Italy has more UNESCO
World Heritage sites than
any other country
in the world
DID YOU KNOW?
It takes about 42 coffee beans
to make one espresso
DID YOU KNOW?
Gelato has a much lower fat content than
ice cream. It actually ranges from fat-free
to 4%-6% for the creamier flavours.
So TREAT YOURSELF!
DID YOU KNOW?
The Italian desert, TIRAMISU,
means ‘pick me up’.
DID YOU KNOW?
Pesto sauce was invented
by Genoese sailors to try to
avoid getting scurvy
DID YOU KNOW?
To drink an espresso like
an Italian, don’t sip it-you
should finish it in 3 sips so drink up!
DID YOU KNOW?
Pizza was originally the
poor man’s food and was
cooked using lava from
Mount Vesuvius
DID YOU KNOW?
Ricotta cheese is not a cheese
at all. It’s a creamy curd cooked
twice…
‘ricotta’= re-cooked
DID YOU KNOW?
Italian spoken today comes
from the original Tuscan
dialect and was spoken
by less than 3% of the population
when Italy was
unified in 1861