The Italian culture has been one of the oldest and one of the most significant culture in this country. This is due to the fact that a lot of European migrated to the United States long ago. Like it is stated by the book Food and Culture by Kittler and Sucher “Today there are approximately 14 million Americans of Italian descent, most of whom live in or around major cities.” (pg 136). One of those major cities with a large population of Italians is New York City. Migrating to a new country with a different culture means having to allow some changes to our own culture. The book Food and Culture states “Once in America, the children broke free of parental control due to economic necessity.” (pg 137). Though, adapting didn’t just meant having
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This dessert is coffee based, this one in particular was made with expresso and it also contained alcohol. To me it wasn’t knew but it definitely tasted different from others Tiramisu I have tried in the past at other restaurant. This one was creamier and had more of a coffee taste to it, others that I have tried before have more of a coffee cinnamon taste to them, however, the coffee taste was definitely stronger to the Edigio’s Tiramisu. Edigio pastry also sells gelato, cheesecake (New York style and also with Ricotta) cookies, fruit tarts, cakes, cannoli’s, and also flans. A few things like the New York styled cheesecakes and flans are not traditionally Italian like one of the employed explain, however, it sells due to the fact the they have a large amount of Spanish costumer. It’s a way to mixed cultures together and a way to not only attract Italian customers. In addition, in terms of the appearance of the goodies sold everything looked overly sweet. Many of the treats had a lot of chocolate icing and crème. Yet, everything looked very appealing to the eye with an extremely attractive presentation. On the other hand, prices were a little bit too high and sizes were small compared to the huge portion sizes we are used to seeing here the United …show more content…
This shop sells raw original Italian products. In terms of size it was not a very large store but it did look very traditional. At first I looked around and saw the products offered in display to the client and every product name sounded Italian which gave me the sense that a lot of the things there were imported from Italy. Most appealing feature about the pasta shop was that the machines to cut the pasta were outside so customers are able to see their pasta while its being cut. They offer things like sauces, olives, Basil pasta, spinach pasta, mushroom pasta, olive oil, Gnocchi potato, Arborio Italian rice- (firm, long grain), Italian lentils and kidney beans, sauce with vodka marinara. They also offered organic products and other things such as spicy marinara, kale tomato basil, whole wheat pasta and meat spinach ravioli. Prices where a little bit on the pricy side compared to the regular pasta we buy on super market. In this shop lentils were $2.90 a small pack and the spinach pasta was $4.96 a pound. After looking around the store I got a chance to speak with the owner and discovered that this shop is a third generation shop since 1935. A very appealing touch was that this shop offered printouts of traditional Italian recipes that included pasta and also a detailed explanation how their pasta was
This dessert is coffee based, this one in particular was made with expresso and it also contained alcohol. To me it wasn’t knew but it definitely tasted different from others Tiramisu I have tried in the past at other restaurant. This one was creamier and had more of a coffee taste to it, others that I have tried before have more of a coffee cinnamon taste to them, however, the coffee taste was definitely stronger to the Edigio’s Tiramisu. Edigio pastry also sells gelato, cheesecake (New York style and also with Ricotta) cookies, fruit tarts, cakes, cannoli’s, and also flans. A few things like the New York styled cheesecakes and flans are not traditionally Italian like one of the employed explain, however, it sells due to the fact the they have a large amount of Spanish costumer. It’s a way to mixed cultures together and a way to not only attract Italian customers. In addition, in terms of the appearance of the goodies sold everything looked overly sweet. Many of the treats had a lot of chocolate icing and crème. Yet, everything looked very appealing to the eye with an extremely attractive presentation. On the other hand, prices were a little bit too high and sizes were small compared to the huge portion sizes we are used to seeing here the United …show more content…
This shop sells raw original Italian products. In terms of size it was not a very large store but it did look very traditional. At first I looked around and saw the products offered in display to the client and every product name sounded Italian which gave me the sense that a lot of the things there were imported from Italy. Most appealing feature about the pasta shop was that the machines to cut the pasta were outside so customers are able to see their pasta while its being cut. They offer things like sauces, olives, Basil pasta, spinach pasta, mushroom pasta, olive oil, Gnocchi potato, Arborio Italian rice- (firm, long grain), Italian lentils and kidney beans, sauce with vodka marinara. They also offered organic products and other things such as spicy marinara, kale tomato basil, whole wheat pasta and meat spinach ravioli. Prices where a little bit on the pricy side compared to the regular pasta we buy on super market. In this shop lentils were $2.90 a small pack and the spinach pasta was $4.96 a pound. After looking around the store I got a chance to speak with the owner and discovered that this shop is a third generation shop since 1935. A very appealing touch was that this shop offered printouts of traditional Italian recipes that included pasta and also a detailed explanation how their pasta was