While it may seem bizarre that a country that loves starch and carbohydrates so much has one of the healthiest diets in the world, it’s actually not too hard to achieve a healthy Italian lifestyle.
Known as a pizza strip, red strip or bakery pizza, this hyper-local flatbread pizza leads to quite the controversy since it’s topped with nothing but a thick layer of tomato sauce.
Italian polenta, a dish that has become a staple in Northern Italian cuisine and that is super easy to make. It is a type of cornmeal made from coarse flour. As the flour is not finely ground, polenta has a little more bite to it.
