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My first post | The Best Italian Food is Homemade!

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13th Jun, 2025

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Italian Food

The Best Italian Food is Homemade!

When I was in Italy my Saturday night dinners were in countryside restaurants around the Centre of Italy. I loved discovering new traditional dishes and fresh authentic meals from various villages. Every day, I was eating priceless unique meals that nowhere in the world you will be ever able to recreate the same way. Some where at home with my Nonna and the family and others were enjoyed with beautiful scenery on the mountain or hidden away in the country.

Italian cooking at home

The majority of Italian Restaurants in metropolitan Italian cities and around the world create commercial menus that sell to people like all of you and they include commercial/fake dishes such as spaghetti meatballs, carbonara with cream, chicken parmigiana etc. And these don’t actually come from Italy! If you order any of these dishes you will not get the authenticity of an Italian dish.

I have been living in Sydney, Australia since 2007 (also now offering cooking classes in Sydney) and I can guarantee to you the best Italian meals I had in OZ were at my house or at elderly Italian people house. The secret is: SIMPLE HOMEMADE RECIPES!

You can’t find authentic Italian Food at 90% of Italian restaurants around the world (and they charge A LOT OF MONEY) so learn to how to cook and DO IT YOURSELF!!!

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4 responses

  1. Chef Art
    July 24, 2014

    That goes for all food. Nothing better than homemade.

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    1. Vincenzo’s Plate
      July 28, 2014

      I totally agree Chef Art

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  2. Jeff Severino
    July 25, 2014

    Good stuff man, esp. the vegetarian dishes. Keep it up!

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    1. Vincenzo’s Plate
      July 28, 2014

      Thank you Jeff,
      I am not vegetarian but I have realized I cook lots of vegetarian dishes. I will make more of them. See you in the next Vincenzo’s Plate video recipe

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