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Genoa Genoa is one of the most important town for what it is known as the "Mediterranean cuisine". Genoise cooking is based mainly on the natural products that have always existed in the area which strecthes between the mounatins and the sea. Many dishes are based on many types of the Ligurian sea fish food. On example is the "Zuppa di pesce" a kind of soup with rock fish and mussles. In Genoa fish is still "fished", in the sense that - apart from the molluscs nowadays cultivated everywhere - it is obtained through the ancient way, throwing the nets into the sea and not using farmed fish. Quality varies depenfing on the season. Wines of getting rare, you can ask for the Coronata, one of the best, it is a delicious mixture of grapes with sunshine and salty air. Other typical dishes around the area are: the Recco cheese focaccia - a simple kind of pizza but very taste, the Pasqualina beet greens pie, the Genoa style stuffed cima, the fried pumpkin flowers, Ravioli and Panzerotti with walnut sauce or pansoti, the chickpea pie. But the entire area is probably best known around the world for that tiny nice green plant called "Basil" from which comes out the real thing: the Pesto. It seems easy to make this particular sauce. Infact we are only talking about a sauce. You must have "Basil" plant, oil, and pecorino cheese. Some variants uses parmisan cheese ore other small different components to add different taste. But it is perhaps the water, the soil, the salty air that makes the difference. You have to cut it in little pieces and then treat it until you reach the state of a sauce. You can than add it to almost every kind of pasta. This sauce is so good and tasty that some of it is exported all over the world. Last - but not least - take a taste of the many home-made type ice cream. No matter where - obviously some places like "Balilla" are very famous for the variety of tastes - just get it. After a long walking around you deserve it. Enrico Pelos, Genoa editor, Liguria (general) editor, world66.com, Genoa, Italy. pelos@tn.village.it http://www.global.village.it/~pelos/index.htm
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