Italian eritrean cuisine

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Italian Eritrean cuisine is the mix of Eritrean dishes and spices with Italian dishes.

Characteristics

This kind of cuisine is quite common with Italian Eritreans or simply Italians who live in Eritrea and vice versa. A common dish is 'Pasta al Sugo e Berbere', which means "Pasta with tomato sauce and berbere" (spice), but there are many more like "lasagna" and "cotoletta alla milanese" (milano cutlet). In Asmara's pizzerias is appreciated the "pizza with zigni". Italian influence is also apparent in Eritrea's beverages, and freshly roasted and brewed Italian-style coffee is commonly enjoyed, along with honey wine and a home-brewed beer called "Suwa".

History

The Italian Eritrean cuisine started to be practiced during the colonial times of the Kingdom of Italy, when a large number of Italians moved to Eritrea. They brought the use of "pasta" to Italian Eritrea, that is one of the main food eaten in Asmara today. Indeed cuisine in Eritrea features more Ottoman and Italian influences than are present in Ethiopian cooking, including more pasta specials and greater use of curry powders and cumin.^[1]

Eritrean restaurants include more Italian options, such as spaghetti or lasagna, in what amounts to a hearty embrace of their former colonial rulers. The Italians, after all, gave Eritrea not only a name and a suspiciously Italy-shaped border, but they also gave Eritreans an easily grasped identity—and therefore, arguably, their first taste of nationalistic pride.Tim Carman

Actually the capital Asmara is where it is more common to find people eating the Italian eritrean cuisine. Asmara has been regarded as "New Rome" or "Italy's African City" due to its quintessential Italian touch, not only for the architecture, but also for the wide streets, piazzas and coffee bars. In the boulevards, that are lined with palms and indigenous shiba'kha trees, there are many pizzerias and coffee bars,^[2] serving cappucinos and lattes, as well as Italian ice cream parlours. Many Eritreans drink the espresso coffee, done from original Italian machinery.

Notes

1. ↑ Carman, Tim (9 January 2009). "Mild Frontier: the differences between Eritrean and Ethiopian cuisines come down to more than spice". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 12 March 2013. 
2. ↑ Asmara coffee bars, with photos

Bibliography

• Capatti, Alberto and Montanari, Massimo. Italian Cuisine: a Cultural History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-231-12232-2
• Dickie, John. Delizia! The Epic History of Italians and Their Food (New York, 2008)

See also

• Eritrean cuisine
• Italian cuisine