VENETO FOOD

1. COMENIUS FOOD
THE TEENAGERS BETWEEN CULINARY TRADITION AND FASTFOOD
2012-2014
TRADITIONAL VENETO - FOOD
AND
FOOD PYRAMID
By italian Students and Comenius Team

2. TRADITIONAL VENETIAN FOOD
AND
FOOD PYRAMID

3. BASIC PILLARS OF VENETIAN FOOD
THERE ARE FOUR PILLARS OF TRADITIONAL
VENETIAN CUISINE

4. 1. POLENTA (mais)
It’s a delicate and tasty cream.
The Venetians eat Polenta
as an appetizer or as a first course or a
main course.

5. 2. RICE
Venetian manner is a bit more liquid
than classic “risotto”,
coocked with
“bisi” : bisi are pees
“chiodini” : chiodini are mushrooms
“radicchio di Treviso”: it’s chicory
“fegadini”: chicken liver and gizzard

6. 3. BEANS
The “meat of poor people”, served as side dish
or with short cut pasta: “Pasta e Fasoi”, as first
course.
In the past and sometimes nowadays eaten at
breakfast

7. 4. STOCKFISH
Served mainly in a creamed version with
polenta

8. The venetian
pillars and the
food pyramid
COD
BEANS
POLENTA
RICE

9. None of these foods has got national origin.
Their use began about in the sixteenth century
thanks also to the Venetian trade.
•MAIS FROM AMERICA
•BEANS FROM AMERICA
•RICE FROM FAR EAST
•STOCKFISH FROM NORWAY

10. …and the Venetian brought into
local cuisine a lot of spices from the
east and far east

11. TRADITIONAL FOODS
FROM TREVISO
“THE JOYFUL AND LOVING LAND”
(and the name in local language)

12. “SARDEE IN SAOR”
(SARDINE WITH ONION, PINE NUTS
AND RAISINS)

13. “RISI E BISI”
(RICE AND PEES)

14. “BIGOI IN SALSA”
(SORT OF SPAGHETTI WITH
ANCHOVIES)

15. “TRIPPA”
(RUMINANT ENTRAILS)

16. “OVI E SPARASI”
(EGGS AND ASPARAGUS)

17. “RISO COI FEGADIN “
(RICE WITH CHICKEN LIVER AND
GIZZARDS)

18. “FEGATO ALLA VENEZIANA”
(LIVER WITH ONION)

19. “BOGOI”
(SNAILS)

20. “RADICI COL LARDO”
(CICORY WITH BACON)

21. “LESSO CON CIPOLLINE E CREN”
(BOILED MEAT, SMALL PICLES
ONION AND HORSERADISH)

22. “PANADEA”
(BREAD, MILK AND WATHER)

23. “COE LESSE”
(BITTER ROOTS OF CHICORY)

24. “RADICEE”
(BOILED AND STEWED DANDELION
LIVES)

25. “RISOTTO COI BRUSCANDOI “
(RICE WITH BUDS OF HOPS)

26. “POLENTA E OSEI”
(MAIS AND SMALL BIRDS)

27. “MUSET, RADICEE E POENTA”
(SORT OF COCKED SALAMI, MAIS
AND DANDELION)

28. “CIODET “
(MUSHROOM BRAD)

29. FROGS

30. “ GO’ ”
(GOBY)

31. “MOECHE E MASANETE”
(YOUNG FEMALE CRAB AND
FEMALE CRAB)

32. “BISATA E PEOCI”
(ANGUILLA AND MUSSELS)

33. “MOSTARDA”
(QUINCE FRUIT AND MUSTARD)

34. FUGASSA
(SWEET EASTER)

35. “CROSTOLI”
(SORT OF PANKAKES)

36. “CASATA”
(HOME MADE CHEESE)

37. …E OMBRE DE VIN…
(GLASSES AND GLASSES OF WINE)