Cool Facts About Italy
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Italy has more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other country in the world
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Pesto sauce was invented by Genoese sailors to try to avoid getting scurvy
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Ricotta cheese is not a cheese at all. It’s a creamy curd cooked twice… ‘ricotta’= re-cooked
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The Italian desert, TIRAMISU, means ‘pick me up’.
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It takes about 42 coffee beans to make one espresso
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To drink an espresso like an Italian, don’t sip it-you should finish it in 3 sips so drink up! One of the important facts about Italy.
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Pizza was originally the poor man’s food and was cooked using lava from Mount Vesuvius. That’s a cool fact about Italy!
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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!
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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.