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What is street food. It is that unexpected aroma of sandwiches, pizzas, piadinas, risottos, mixed fried food that envelops and overwhelms you as you walk through the streets of the city.
It is that neurological impulse that suddenly makes you hungry, and you can’t help but let yourself be guided by that scent, already imagining the magnificent traditional flavor that you can only find in Italian dishes.
All that’s left is to immerse yourself in the taste and let yourself be seduced by the goodness of these fantastic dishes. Much more than a simple trend, street food is a true art, all to be discovered and appreciated, bite by bite.
We often hear about this type of "on-wheel" cuisine, but what is street food?
It stems from the love and passion for food, from the careful research to combine the ancient flavors of our Italian culinary tradition with flavors from foreign countries. Street food is a new way of conceiving cooking, a sort of tasty alternative to traditional cuisine and fast food. The food is prepared inside food trucks, real kitchens on wheels: within these small workshops, delicacies await to be savored.
The origins of street food. The history of this fantastic cooking method dates back to the times of ancient Greece and ancient Rome: these two pioneering peoples revolutionized the way food was served in market squares.
At that time, it was possible to find stalls along the city streets rich in food ready to be enjoyed on the go.
As time went on and with the first cultural exchanges, street food made its way to the Middle East and the East, albeit with different dishes, recipes, and preparations.
This novelty soon reached the American coasts, which saw the introduction of food trucks famous for their hot dog sandwiches. Subsequently, this phenomenon spread to Anglo-Saxon countries and Northern Europe, reaching Italy and embedding itself in the modern culinary culture.
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What does street food mean? This expression refers to street food, even if today its meaning has greatly expanded. Therefore, it is a true and proper style of cooking that is very particular, practical, economical, and informal. You won’t find establishments, waiters, tables, or even menus: all that awaits you is a food truck that releases irresistible smells, and you will only have to choose what you want to taste. Besides being prepared on the spot, these particular dishes are delicious and rich in traditional flavors, sometimes mixed with foreign recipes.
The art of street food is not only about the food and recipes, but also about the food trucks: they are not just simple vans but real works of art on the road. Bees, pineapples, giant sandwiches, wooden barrels, and fruits are just some of the strangest forms that these wonderful kitchens on wheels take. You can also find greener solutions with perfectly equipped cargo bikes roaming the streets of our cities, bringing irresistible traditional dishes everywhere.
Street food in Italy offers many recipes from the Italian culinary tradition, revisited in such a way that they can be easily enjoyed while walking through city streets. The options are truly endless: burgers and fries, local fish fry, tacos, piadinas, fried pizza, or slices, as well as travel sweets like irresistible chocolate crepes.
Italian street food features very tasty and traditional foods such as arancini or arancine, i.e., breaded and fried rice balls filled with meat ragu, peas, and cheese.
The street food from Campania offers a delicious pizza with gooey cheese and tasty babà, little mushroom-shaped sweets flavored with rum. Rome offers fantastic fried cod, a regional specialty served with puntarelle salad, while in Tuscany, we can enjoy a traditional cookie made with chestnut flour, a sweet originating from Arezzo.
Emilia-Romagna can only propose magnificent fried gnocchi filled with typical cold cuts and cheeses, a true delight to enjoy while walking.
Farinata, on the other hand, is the street food offered by Liguria: it is a light, thin savory tart made with chickpea flour, water, salt, and oil.
Another irresistible product from Italian street food is panelle, a crunchy fritter typical of Sicily served in a sandwich with sesame seeds. But this fantastic region also offers the succulent sandwich with meusa or spleen dressed with lemon juice and cheese: the perfect sandwich to enjoy with friends!
Having guests for dinner is never easy because creating a special menu requires time and creativity. Often, one tends to cook very elaborate and refined dishes to make a good impression, but the results are not always as hoped. How to cook delicious dishes in a short time? If you want to impress your guests with simplicity and goodness, street food recipes are the perfect solution for you.
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These delicious recipes will surely win over your guests, allowing you to create an alternative and informal dinner. Let the panelle dazzle your guests or delight them with fantastic Romagna-style piadinas filled with arugula, squacquerone cheese, and speck: a delicacy!
The potato croquettes, also known as panzarotti, are a typical Neapolitan recipe that will seduce your friends' palates.
Classic but timeless will always be the hamburger in all its variations: with beef, fish, vegetarian burgers, crunchy vegetables, salad, and bacon.
In short, you can fill it with the ingredients you like best and garnish it with the simplest sauces as well as the more specific ones like truffle creams. Try to make it even more unique by creating black charcoal bread or green spirulina bread, and you’ll surprise your guests!
Finally, to conclude your dinner in the best way, we recommend making fantastic and delicious graffe, a typical Neapolitan sweet shaped like a donut, sprinkled with sugar. Another dessert that will win over both young and old is, and will always be, the crepe: chocolate cream, pistachio cream, jam, coconut chips, and nut crumbs are just some of the possible fillings, but all very tasty.
As you can see, street food is a true art that wanders from city to city, bringing with it the best Italian products.
On Spaghetti e Mandolino, you will find all the ingredients necessary to create these delicious dishes. Choose your favorite recipe and get cooking!
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