{"id":7670,"date":"2024-03-18T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2024-03-18T14:51:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:51:28","slug":"vancouvers-italian-food-scene-from-simple-spaghetti-to-sophisticated-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/vancouvers-italian-food-scene-from-simple-spaghetti-to-sophisticated-cuisine\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver\u2019s Italian food scene: from simple spaghetti to sophisticated cuisine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vancouver Sun <\/a>\u2013\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Pizza, pasta, prosciutto, Parmigiano-Reggiano \u2014 there\u2019s a lot to like about Italian food. Yet, ironically, there really is no such thing as Italian food. It\u2019s a cuisine of regions and the sub-regions within them. After all, the multiple kingdoms, duchies and papal states that ruled the Italian peninsula only unified in 1871. The rich, eggy pastas, buttery cheeses and cured pork dishes of Piemonte in the north are a world apart from the briny, sun-soaked olives, capers and tomatoes of Sicily in the south. In Calabria, food is flavoured with chilies, while in Liguria, it\u2019s fragrant with delicate herbs, and in Tuscany, it\u2019s simple, earthy and heavy on the beans, beef and olive oil.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0221-salut-italian-food-4-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7680 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/768;\" \/><figcaption>PHOTO BY HAKAN BURCUOGLU<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/life\/food\/salut-how-vancouvers-italian-food-scene-evolved-from-simple-spaghetti-to-todays-sophisticated-cuisine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pizza, pasta, prosciutto, Parmigiano-Reggiano \u2014 there\u2019s a lot to like about Italian food. Yet, ironically, there really is no such thing as Italian food<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":7679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1055,1880,1252,481],"class_list":{"0":"post-7670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-cuisine","9":"tag-culinary-experience","10":"tag-italian-food","11":"tag-vancouver","12":"pmpro-has-access"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0221-salut-italian-food-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7681,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions\/7681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}