Top 10 Italian food regions

Italy's top 10 cuisine regions and their main cities

1. Emilia Romagna   Main City: Bologna
2. Tuscany   Main City: Florence
3. Latium   Main City: Rome
4. Lombard   Main City: Milan
5. Piedmont   Main City: Torino
6. Veneto   Main City: Venice
   
7. Campania   Main City: Naples
8. Sicily   Main City: Palermo
9. Sardinia   Main City: Cagliari
10. Liguria   Main City: Genoa

A famous food from each Italian cuisine region
Put these foods on your must-eat list
Ragu
Emalia-Romagne   Main City: Bologna
Pork is the chief meat ingredient in the renowned Ragu sauce. This thick, rich, and complex tomato sauce is ideally suited for pasta. Ragu is often called "Bolognese sauce", named after the region's leading city.

Bistecca alla Fiorentina
Tuscany   Main City: Florence
A thick, choice steak cut from the local Chianina cattle, charcoal broiled and flavored with olive oil, salt and pepper.

Fettuccine al Burro
Latium   Main City: Rome
Also known as Fettuccine Alfredo or alla Romana. Flat ribbon-shaped pasta is tossed, generally, with cream, butter and cheese, then given a good sprinkling of freshly ground peppercorns

Osso Buco
Lombard   Main City: Milan
A veal shank braised with tomato, onion, stock and wine, then topped with Gremolata, a garnish made with parsley, garlic and lemon rind. The choicest morsel in Osso Buco ("hole in bone") is the cooked marrow clinging to the hollow of the bone.

Fonduta
Piedmont   Main City: Torino
It's made by melting Fontina cheese (from the neighboring Val d'Aosta region) with milk, butter and eggs. The cook tops the resulting "fondue" with sliced white truffles.

Fegato alla Veneziana
Veneto   Main City: Venice
Though meat dishes are a minority in Venice, one is world famous: Fegato alla Veneziana, tissue-thin calves' liver slices sauteed with onions.

Calzone
Campania   Main City: Naples
Deep-fried, crescent-shaped dough stuffed (usually) with ham-flecked mozzarella cheese.

Caponata
Sicily   Main City: Palermo
Chopped vegetables such as eggplant (the most essential ingredient), tomatoes, onions, green peppers, olives, and celery individually cooked in olive oil, then combined.

Carta de Musica
Sardinia   Main City: Caglieri
Literally, music paper. It's a thin, crisp, circular flatbread. Also called pane carasau by inlanders and pane fresa by coastal denizens.

Pesto
Liguria   Main City: Genoa
The region of Liguria is the birthplace of pesto, that fragrant, thick, green sauce that is now prepared by cooks around the world. Pesto is made by pounding its ingredients together with a pestle (hence, the name) in a mortar. The essential ingredients are basil, garlic, Parmesan and Sardinian ewe's milk cheeses, along with pine nuts and olive oil.

Does "Italian cuisine" exist?
Italian cuisine is only a generalized concept embracing the country's 20 distinct regional cuisines. Each area has it own cooking style and personality. To truly know Italian cuisine, you must know its regional cuisines.