nPosted on August 21, 2019
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nItalian food! What would the world do without it?
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nPizza and pasta and polenta and risotto…marinara and carbonara and alfredo and bolognese…focaccia and all sorts of other Italian breads and garlic breads…Ahh! I love it; don’t you?
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nBut how to end a delicious Italian meal?
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nA classic Italian dessert is gelato. This frozen treat is like ice cream, but it has a lot less butterfat. (About 4 – 8 % in gelato, about 14% in ice cream.) Gelato also has less air and water than most ice cream. Because of the low-fat content, gelato is served at a slightly less-cold temperature – and that means that the flavor is stronger; of course, the flavor isn’t diluted with so much air and water, as well.
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| Gelato often comes in a BUNCH of different flavors. Fruit flavors, obviously – everything from lemon and raspberry to mango and pineapple. But gelato can also be found in alcohol-infused flavors, coffee flavors, chocolatey or vanilla-ish flavors, and combo flavors with nuts or other tasty tidbits (like caramels, marshmallows, cookie chunks, coconut, etc.) stirred in. BUT did you know that gelato can even come in |
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nGelato has a more velvety texture than ice cream. It melts in your mouth more quickly (remember, it’s served a bit less cold), and it isn’t meant to be stored long term, so it’s fresher, as well.
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nAnother amazing thing about gelato is all the flavors! Today we celebrate molded gelato with multiple flavors! Spumoni is traditionally made with three flavors: cherry, pistachio, and either chocolate or vanilla. One or more flavors may contain bits of fruit and nuts – such as cherry bits in the cherry gelato, and chopped pistachio nuts in the pistachio gelato – or the desert may be topped with fruit and nuts. The traditional color combination is pink and green and brown (or pink, green, and off-white).
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nAs soon as I started writing about Spumoni, I started wondering about another multiple-layers, multiple-colors frozen Italian treat: Neapolitan ice cream. Sure enough, according to my sources, Neapolitan (named for the Italian city of Naples) is considered a form of Spumoni. The ice cream found here in the U.S. has been tweaked to match up with typical American flavor preferences: strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla.
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nUh, no! I’m pretty typical “American,” but I think I like the traditional Italian flavors of Spumoni way more!
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nAlso on this date:
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nPoet’s Day
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nAnniversary of the eruption of Lake Nyos
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nAnniversary of the theft of the Mona Lisa
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nAnniversary of the Voyager 2 fly-by of Triton
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nHawaii’s statehood anniversary
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nAnniversary of a total solar eclipse
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nAnniversary of the First American Revolution
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nPlan ahead:
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