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10 giant foods that you find only in the United States – Italian Cuisine

Traveling to the United States to discover ten incredible gigantic foods that you can only find here, in the homeland of "supersized food"

On the quality and variety of foods that you can find in the United States you could talk for a long time, with different opinions and points of view, but on one thing we can all agree: Americans are obsessed with gigantic foods. This craze, unfortunately, often goes hand in hand with an unregulated diet where excess sugar, fat and calories can have dramatic health consequences, including obesity, diabetes or heart disease. Leaving aside the risks that huge food can have, a responsibility that the consumer should always keep in mind, it must be said that this fashion is realizing the forbidden dreams of many gluttons and still represents an interesting phenomenon widespread globally. In the United States these gigantic foods are proposed by food trucks or small and large restaurants to attract customers and to ensure that they engage in real culinary challenges with selfie shots; but also by high-level chefs always looking for ways to amaze their customers. Let's take a short tour through the United States to discover some of these incredible creations.

1. A Guinness Book of World Records

The news of this pizzeria has really gone around the world. Big Mama and Papa at Big Mama's and Papa's, a chain with headquarters in Southern California, has in fact created giant pizza-based recipes, including the "Giant Sicilian" almost a meter and a half long, which has entered the Guinness Book of Records. This pizza should be ordered at least 24 hours in advance and has a base price of $ 300. Remarkable also their Giant Gondola, a huge version of the famous Georgian dish khachapuri, prepared with over 50 eggs and a pound of green peppers and bacon!

2) The famous "hot dog pink" of Los Angeles

The local PINK'S HOT DOGS in Los Angeles (California) is a true legend in the United States, so much to be the destination of actors and celebrities, to whom among other things some sandwiches pay tribute. To make this restaurant famous also the size of hot dogs, including the greedy and spicy "El Cucuy Dog" with jalapeno, 30 cm long.

3) The biggest pretzels in the world

The Mader restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is known for its German cuisine and for being the oldest restaurant in town, open since 1902. To make this a place of pilgrimage, however, it is mainly its huge pretzels, as big as a pizza, to be accompanied by a nice one-liter beer mug.

4) An epic hamburger

THE'OOmg burgers of the Chicago SafeHouse more than a sandwich is really a challenge. With well 15 burger and a monstrous amount of dripping melted cheese, this is one of America's biggest burgers and costs only $ 50.
What's more, the OOmg is served with two kilos of cheese curd and a liter and a half of beer.

5) The family-size omelette

The Beth's Cafe in Seattle, a delicious diner open 24 hours a day and specialized in breakfasts and quick but genuine dishes, has its strong point substantial omelettes, available from 6 and 12 eggs, which promise to feed even the most voracious customers! No coincidence that the restaurant appeared in an episode of the well-known TV program Man vs Food.

6) Breakfast of the champions

Always for lovers of abundant breakfasts, another unmissable destination in the United States is the Fine & Rare of New York. The specialty of the house is indeed a truly unique breakfast, weighing a kilo and a half, which consists of a giant ostrich egg, coming from a farm in New Jersey, with peppers, onions, sausage, bacon and bread … an unforgettable breakfast!

7) Half a meter of pancakes

We move to Florida where Shelby's kitchen and Deli serves several colossal foods including a brunch whose dish consists of a big half-meter pancake, covered with two kilos of bacon, eggs, toast and fries.

8) A sushi donut weighing 7 kg

From the western kitchen we now pass to the oriental one. At WAVE Asian Bistro & Sushi in Mount Dora, in Florid, they make some really original donuts made entirely of sushi, weighing as much as 7 kilos and over 7 thousand calories and designed for about 10 people. This dish, prepared with rice for sushi, spicy crab, tuna and cucumber, requires almost three hours of processing time

9) 36 donuts in one

From a salty donut we pass to a sweet one of a kind. In fact, you can find DK's Donuts and Bakery in Santa Monica, California a donut so big as to be the equivalent of 36 classic donuts. Customers can not only choose the size, but also customize their order, choosing for example the type of frosting and decoration.

10) The ice cream of dreams

All of us have dreamed of eating a pyramid of ice cream as children, but also as adults. Disney is well aware that in its Florida amusement park, and particularly in the Disney's Beach Club Resort, it has included in the menu a ice cream cup served in a bowl so big it was called so big it was called Kitchen Sink dessert, the sweet of the kitchen sink. Inside there is practically everything: ice cream with chocolate, mint, coffee, chocolate; but also chocolate biscuits, peanut butter, marshmallows, fresh fruit and nuts, a real blaze of flavors!

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The top 10 of Christmas foods that are most popular on social media – Italian Cuisine

They receive shares and appreciation: we discover together which Christmas foods are more successful on social networks. Are they also your favorites?

You are preparing, the menu It is decided, the expenditure is almost done, the divisions between family and invited also. The Christmas it is always closer and is inevitably synonymous with great binges. Each region, but also every family, has its own Christmas traditions, yet there are some dishes and ingredients that are more appreciated than others just about anywhere. He proves it a monitoring conducted by Espresso Communication for Vitavigor, the historic brand of Milan breadsticks, which has classified the hashtag of the most popular Christmas delicacies on Instagram. Let's find out then the top 10 of the most loved Christmas foods on social media.

The 10 most loved Christmas foods on Instagram

If the customs change, this ranking shows us how Italians continue to love tradition. In fact, on the podium of the top 10 we find the lasagna, which triumph in the menu 2.0 with 570,903 dedicated posts on Instagram. There are those who love those at the meat sauce, who instead prefers different versions, like the lasagna with vegetables or al fish. In second place there can only be the panettone, a dessert that is the true symbol of Christmas and that is often accompanied by mascarpone creams is icing of various kinds. The top 3 i closes tortellini, a great classic, to eat with the broth or dry.

Leave the first three positions, continue in the standings: follow, in fourth place, the Pandoro, a typical Veronese dessert that has always been a great panettone antagonist, while on the fifth it is placed lentils, the dish of New Year. At the sixth and seventh we have respectively dried fruit is Nougat, ideal to complete the meals of the Holidays. The eighth is occupied by breadsticks, who win an exclusive place in the trash bin bread of the period of the Holidays, as pointed out by Federica Bigiogera, marketing manager of Vitavigor: «I'm a delicious starter or a perfect aperitif, in line with the tastes of the whole family. Breadsticks continue to be one of the most popular foods by Italians and, just for Christmas, they record an increase in requests. Our in particular embellish the Christmas table thanks to their fashion sachets! .

In the queue, but still in the top ten, there are the struffoli, emblem of the Christmas of the South. To finally close we find the cod, which is gluttonous fried, creamed, stewed, with polenta, in cream … in short, it is a versatile fish that arrives on Italian tables for the holidays.

The big ones excluded

Surprisingly, you will not find second courses of meat, such as boiled and roasted, but also lamb is capon. The same applies to the cotechino, which couples exclusive with the lentils to celebrate the last of the year. It seems they are less appreciated this year too eel, dates and cold cuts, which are falling, at least according to a monitoring of the hashtag on Instagram.

But what will your Christmas menu be like this year?

Diabetes: the foods to fight it – Italian Cuisine

The World Diabetes Day is celebrated on November 14th. Here's what to eat and what to avoid to prevent it and keep it under control

Diabetes is a real epidemic: according to the WHO in the world there are more than 400 million people who are affected with a prevalence of type 2 diabetes, also called mellitus, caused by wrong lifestyles, including the improper diet, on the one of type 1. To raise awareness and spread awareness of the disease every year on November 14th, the World diabetes day, promoted in our country by Diabetes Italia Onlus through various initiatives (meetings, visits and free consultations) throughout the national territory.
Nutrition plays a fundamental role in preventing and managing the disorder. Let's see with the help of the nutritionist Nicoletta Bocchino what to eat and what to avoid to keep the blood sugar low.

Green light to the fibers

"To better manage diabetes, but also to prevent its onset, at the table should not miss the foods rich in fiber, especially soluble ones, which are good sources legumes (lentils, chickpeas, beans and so on) and green leafy vegetables (broccoli, lettuce, rocket, Brussels sprouts and many others) suggests nutritionist Nicoletta Bocchino. The advantage? "These foods are able to slow down the absorption of sugars and fats in the blood and avoid the blood sugar spikes, responsible for the disease".

Space at the table with the right carbohydrates

"In daily menus to prevent diabetes and manage it at the best attention not to exceed the amount of carbohydrates in each meal giving precedence to complex ones. Compared to simple (fast-absorbing) ones, they have the advantage of avoiding blood glucose peaks, releasing blood sugars gradually. They are found for example in legumes and cereals, such as barley, oats, rye and many others. Selected in the full version, then, the benefits grow because they have a lower glycemic index that helps to better control the blood glucose peaks after meals, prolonging the sense of satiety .

Eye to the sugars

"To control your blood sugar you need to reduce the consumption of foods that contain simple carbohydrates, such as white sugar (sucrose) and sweeteners (for example fructose) and foods containing them such as sweets, sugary drinks and many others. pre-packaged products. The advice is to read the labels carefully before buying them, paying particular attention to their content suggests the nutritionist.

Space to proteins, good fats and probiotics

«Proteins, of which an excellent source is meat (lean), fish and eggs, and essential fatty acids, such as Omega 3, contained in fish, in particular in blue, in nuts and seeds, and Omega 9, contained in extra virgin olive oil, help slow the absorption of glucose into the blood, reducing the rate of digestion and absorption of sugars explains the expert. It is important to take care of the intestine to keep your blood sugar under control. "Several studies have shown that a healthy bacterial flora allows to improve the glycemic response, reducing it. At the table, therefore, you should never miss food rich in probiotics, which increase the number of beneficial bacteria that inhabit the intestinal flora, such as low-sugar yogurt, sauerkraut and other fermented foods and fiber-rich prebiotics such as inulin, which nourish the intestinal microbiota, such as asparagus, artichokes and many others .

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