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As an Italian I've always wondered who ever could want to cook something at early morning? We Italians love to cook very much for lunch and for dinner, but, as you wake up, you surely don't want to mess up with pans in the kitchen to fry something. Just saying..
@@patriciamartin6550 Italians are probably the top 3 healthiest people. That's mainly because we eat so much more fruit and veggies than most of the other Western countries (while Asian countries are probably better than us in this). Eating so much veggies means that most of the time the carbs are eaten with plenty of fiber. Fiber has the important role to regulate the sugar level in your bloodstream. This, along with a lower amount of animal fat and in general better sources of fats in our diet means that we have less chances of getting heart conditions, obesity and diabetes (which is almost always associated with obesity)
@@patriciamartin6550 but we don't have the rate of obesity like you have in the US!!!! 60x100 of US adult is obese in the United States, here is one in a million... Or two million. It is not the only flour or only the pasta that makes you to become fat, but the way you cook it, using too much fat in the (condimento?) and eating too much fat together with it, like people use to have in country as the US: pizza hut is full of fat, for example... As a matter of fact, I think is more healthy to eat a good homemade pizza or a good plate of pasta than eating at McDonald's at breakfast, lunch and dinner... Or other junk food many people use to swallow in your country. Morgan Spurlock has shown what can happen to people if they eat only hamburgers, fried chicken and such in his documentary Supersize me...
Having some sweet breakfast Is sooo unhealthy, only italians eat like that. The other people eat salty breakfast which gives you energy and it's the most important meal during a day. That's why you always tired and slooow
Italian living in Italy here. I really appreciate the way you talk about Italian food in your videos. It's evident you've put a lot of research in your videos and that you've actually talked with Italian people. I find your content to be super accurate and deep, unlike what I usually tend to see on American channels. Bonus added for using singular and plural properly ( I hate to hear "a bischotti" or stuff like that). Keep on the good work!
Italian breakfasts are the best! I've definitely switched to Italian. I was never a big breakfast person but something sweet with a coffee is the best!
We usually eat sweet breakfast because you need very quick energy for your working day. And what gives you the electricity to start the day are sugar and coffee (espresso).
@@MichaelTheophilus906 I am a blood donor and my sugar level is optimal. It is also true that the United States has one of the highest percentage of fat people in the world. Definitely I think espresso and brioche are a better breakfast than eggs and bacon.
I’m Italian and I live in Australia with my super Aussie partner, the other day he saw me having a cup of warm milk and a slice for breakfast and he was shocked “cake for breakfast?!?!!” 🤣 savory breakfast makes me nauseated, biscotti, fette biscottate and torta all my life!!
Breakfast cakes are "dry" cakes, without creams or with jam only. We are talking about ciambelloni, margherita cake, chocolate cake, crostate, strudel, etc. They are dry because they must be soaked in milk or cappuccino :)
Correct, they are quite different from what we consider proper desserts. An italian would not eat tiramisù or for breakfast. In the Usa bakery and pastry are considered synonymous, in Italy bakery products are for breakfast, pastry products are eaten after lunch or dinner. If we were int he Us, we would consider muffins, donuts and cookies as proper breakfast food, and cheese cake, key lime pie, red velvet, as desserts
@@lookone80 Grazie Luca per la tua precisazione. Un dolce è un dolce, una torta è un'altra cosa. A un italiano non verrebbe mai in mente di mangiarsi una torta per colazione! Grazie veramente di cuore.
My parents came from Italy. This is how I grew up. When I was little, I had a very milky coffee ( we start them young)with biscotti that I would dip into the coffee.
That's amazing! As an Italian I was forbidden from drinking coffee before the age of 15/16. And the same for my friends. They say it's bad for children. We usually make "caffè d'orzo" for children, which is a fake coffee made of barley.
My favourite thing ever: having leftover Panettone for breakfast during Christmas time or maybe even a little later... let's say around the 15th of January when Christmas is over but you still have one or two Panettoni left and you just have it for breakfast with a nice mug of caffellatte. Pro tip: keep some Panettone around til February so you can have some for San Biagio ;)
The History of Biscotti : Originally made as a long-shelf-life food for travelers and carried by the Roman Legions, today’s biscotti are a popular accompaniment to cappuccino and a classic with Vin Santo. Originally flavored with almonds, they are now made in dozens of flavors. Though modern biscotti are associated with the Tuscan region of Italy, the popular Italian cookie traces its origins to Roman times. The word biscotto derives from “bis,” Latin for twice, and “coctum” or baked (which became “cotto,” or cooked). The Roman biscotti were more about convenience food for travelers rather than a pleasurable treat for leisurely diners. Unleavened, finger-shaped wafers were baked first to cook them, then a second time to completely dry them out, making them durable for travel and nourishment for the long journeys-Pliny boasted that they would be edible for centuries. Biscotti were a staple of the diet of the Roman Legions. After the fall of the Roman Empire in 455 C.E, the country was repeatedly sacked by the Visigoths, the Vandals and others. The people did their best to survive; there was no culinary development. But with the Renaissance, cuisine also flowered. Biscotti re-emerged in Tuscany, credited to a Tuscan baker who served them with the local sweet wine. Their dry, crunchy texture was deemed to be the perfect medium to soak up the wine (and how much more flavorful than dunking a donut in coffee!). Centuries later, many still agree that dipping biscotti into Vin Santo is a perfect way to end a meal, or to while away an hour at a café
Ciao! Yes we do eat a light breakfast, well the idea behind is simple. You want something fast that wake you up and start your day. If during the morning you get hungry again, we eat a “snack” mid morning, like focaccia, un panino or similar usually salty, to carry us until lunch. We do a similar thing in the afternoon as well where we may eat something to get us to dinner. We call those period “merenda” which every youth probably eat daily. Also people that are athletic or doing manual work usually eat at one or both of those times. That would a good video to do (so that people don’t think we just run on sugar). Hope it help 😀
I'm not Italian although I've spent a few summers in Italy at my godmother's and I usually eat a sweet breakfast at home. My favourite from the Italian breakfast foods are pan di stelle both the cookie and the cake forms
Well us Sudanese have lot in common with our italian brother when it comes to breakfast. Rarely we eat salty stuff esrly morning. We drink cup of tea with milk and some types of cookies. Easte Sudan drink coffee alot. But we do have brunch where people eat ful or falafel sandwich, cheese sandwich along with another cup of tea or coffee
In Italian cuisine, it is about the amount you eat --- not excess and also the light breakfast is a bit of a light fast before heavier lunch and dinner meals.
I'm Italian and I didn't expect that you find Italian breakfast weird ahaha You're such excited about things that are quite normal here that you make me enthusiastic again for my tradition too... So thank you ahaha
Well, actually, there are also some little mistakes about Italian breakfast, I'm so sorry to tell you... But nothing really important ahaha For instance, you must eat your breakfast sit down, Never walking down the street. Then, it's better to eat with friends if you go to the bar for having breakfast. We usually prefer to cook it for our own at home, and then go to work or to school. But as I already said, don't worry, those are meaningless things, except for this it's almost alright ❤️🤗
I start with italian breakfast and I finish with a touch of irish one. Greek yogurt in between! Probably the best way to feel on vacation during the lockdown.😎
in fairness in Italy there is also a traditional savory breakfast.Example in Genoa the simple focaccia or onion with cappuccino in the morning is famous, fried dumplings and coffee in Modena, pizza with mortadella, figs or anchovies and flowers of pumpkin, suppli or cod fillet sandwiches with the spianata o corallina in Rome.throughout Italy there is a tradition of savory breakfast even if practiced less and less to make room for the sweet one which is faster, less expensive and releases more energy immediately due to the glucose contained.
for other tasty things to eat you should also visit the towns in province of Brindisi, some examples: Ceglie Messapica famous for the "Biscotto cegliese" and for the many excellent restaurants, the "Pasta reale" in Latiano, the "Fico Mandorlato" in San Michele Salentino, etc..
In some mountain places they sell plain traditional yoghurt in those old-fashioned glass jars. I prefer them too, hands down. Yes. we've introduced some cereals in our breakfasts recently, even though in the form go bars and containing sweet ingredients like chocolate or cream. 😁
Ciao tutti! A Very well done video- In the US we are more diversified with less reliance on historical culture as a basis to define current practices. Americans can have the "sweet breakfast" as well with the typical donuts and coffee - ( a paltry substitute for true Italian flavors). Our sweet breakfasts are usually over-processed affairs with highly refined synthetic flavors. I miss the time I spent in Italy! I have lots of family in Milano and my mother was born in Bari. We still have famliy friends in Bari and Cassano-Di-Murge. All the best to you Katie!
Ahah I love your enthusiasm for cake for breakfast! I am Italian and still don't understand why we do that. When I was a kid, at my grandma's I used to have even coffee in home-made gelato or semifreddo, meringues, zuppa inglese, other cakes and stuff like that, which is quite nutritionally insane. Now I live in France and actually my breakfast is toast and salted butter, orange juice and an american Nescaffe' with no sugar at home and croissant/pain-au-chocolat when I go to the office. French are very very similar to Italians in this!
We always mixed cereals. We're Italian Americans and my grands always ate sweets for breakfast. Always light, right after, plans for the main meal of the day were made.
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Been enjoying your content Katie! Keep it up! Loved this one. Thanks to Italy, I eat sweets for breakfast too 😊
Here in Brazil we could eat either sweet or salty, but I think one of the most common breakfasts here (at least in the region I am at, which is São Paulo) is "Pingado e Pão na Chapa" (coffee with milk, and a bread, with butter, heated on a griddle)
@@TheQKatie Davvero? Che bello! Io sono nato in un'altra città, però vivo a San Paolo 18 anni fa! Allora il mio piano è trasferirmi in Italia e riconoscere la mia cittadinanza italiana! :)
Yay - new to your whole experience but I can tell already I'm going to love it. Thanks for bringing a piece of italy to my morning....now for colazione :)
In alcune zone della Sicilia, nei mesi più caldi, si usa mangiare la granita al caffè con della panna sopra. A questa si aggiunge la "brioscia" un dolce lievitato con una consistenza simile a un cornetto.
I'm from the UK and I guess I've been eating breakfast like an Italian my whole life! Biscuits or brioche for breakfast is self care ❤️ now that it's hot I love strawberries and unsweetened coconut yoghurt
Read your book,AMAZING! With all the digital books I own I have listen to yours is one of the very few should I have digital and hardback❤️ your channel.
100% mix cereals as an American! Usually something with different textures or even a granola like cereal. Taste amazing! I also sometimes don't eat cereal with milk.. that might be weird
My typical Italian breakfast is usually a cafè latte or cappuccino w/o schiuma and whole grain dark bread with Osella soft cheese and jam or marmalade 😋 really good👍
About mixing different cereals: I did that as a child and I still do it now for the fun of mixing flavors and textures. Or, you know... to compensate the lack of one kind of cereal
La cosa simpatica è che a Milano e credo in generale nel nord Italia, "cornetto" non significa nulla, tuttalpiù sono i fagiolini. E il cornetto nel nord italia lo chiamiamo "brioche". Se entri in un bar chiedendo un caffè e cornetto, probabilmente ti danno un gelato dell' algida! :)
Io vivo a Torino e la situazione è un po’ diversa: la maggior parte dei torinesi usa la parola croissant, ma è diffuso anche l’uso di brioche e cornetto. Quindi possono essere usati tutti e tre senza incorrere in incomprensioni.
I think that what most foreigners in Italy or talking to Italians don't get is that we don't have "cake" for breakfast, but we have something similar called "ciambella", which contains less sugar most of the times and it's homemade, so it can be done with other ingredients and avoiding too many fat ingredients ;)
As like in France, fresh bread of baguettes, croissants and other sweets. But they using more butter and jam in the breads. That's my experiences. Early before morning, people are working on to make this bakers to make sure you get fresh breads and sweets for your breakfast.
Bravissima, il tuo video è molto informativo per tutte le persone che vogliono imparare un po' di più in merito alle abitudini Italiane. Uno dei pochi video che realmente mostra quello che noi Italiani effettivamente mangiamo durante la colazione! :) Your video is highly informative for all those people that want to know a little more with regards to Italian habits! It is really one of the few videos that truly shows what we Italians actually eat during breakfast! I enjoyed it! :)
I am Dutch living in the UK. Breakfast growing up was always sandwiches, either cheese or chicken, and then of course the famous 'hagelslag': chocolate sprinkles. or chocolate spread, like Nutella or a dark chocolate. I remember having a sandwich for breakfast here in the UK and my British niece (9 at the time) told me off. 'That's not breakfast!' Here I'll have cereal with yogurt, toast with jam, and every now and then we'll go out for a cooked breakfast with eggs and sausages. But of course cold pizza is still a favourite. ;)
I'm Italian and my wife is Turkish. So we share the 2 opposite sides of world breakfast: the smallest and the biggest! So often we mix them or we choose what we like the most in that particular moment from both. But in special occasions and on Sundays the result is huge, colored and tasty!
Love breakfast meals as well especially savory with a little sweet afterwords. On the other hand, as you know American breakfast for the most part is also Dessert for Breakfast i.e. pancake(s) with syrup; waffles with syrup ; cereal with milk etc...
Hello, Katie. I'm Claudia and I live in Venice. I always watch your interesting videos. You are very nice and friendy. You know very well Italian customs, food and way of live. So, thank you for loving our Country ❤ Have a nice weekend, Katie 💟
@@TheQKatie Grazie a te, Katie. Sono contenta che tu sia cittadina italiana. Noi ti vogliamo bene. Sorry, I have written in Italian. But I'm sure you understand 👏👏👏👏 Sorry for my English 🙏
Curiosità... in molte regioni italiane, per tradizione, la colazione di Pasqua invece è a base di "savory food", uova, salame, pizza salata al formaggio e altro ancora :)
In molte zone di campagna negli anni 50/60 Si mangiava salato prima di andare nelle campagne per lavorare...io sono in emilia,i miei nonni raccontavano questo
Ciao Katie. Yep love my pannetone. Could stuff my face on it for breakfast, lunch and dinner (if my doctor or my wife would let me!). Surprised you didn't mention anything about cannoli or tiramisu with a nice coffee. My favorites!
Muller yogurt is probably the most sugary one.. there are some brands that even if they are with fruit, they are not that sweet though. When I want a bit of flavor in my yogurt, I normally buy the white, plain kind of yogurt and then I just add a bit of organic jam from a teaspoon.
Ah, le fette biscottate! I’ve always struggled with finding the correct English translation for those… Isn’t “rusks“ a viable option? Are they the same thing? As for yogurt I’m on the same page as you, but have you noticed that more and more brands in Italian supermarkets are putting yogurt in all paper containers (apart from the aluminum top)?
wow,that's really interesting and lovely that starting day with sweets. But as a Turkish girl it's kinda far away from me :D So basically a typical Turkish breakfast includes eggs,bread,tomatoes,cucumbers,olives and lotss of cheese etc. and at the end you take your last bite with some honey and kaymak(butterfat is the word for english i think)
I'm Italian and live in Ireland. I am completely used to having eggs for breakfast or porridge, when I want to treat myself it is bread with peanut butter. I live savoury breakfast, it makes me feel more energetic in the first hours of the day. My sister lives in UK and she still has coffee with a few biscotti for breaky and claims that savoury breakfast will make her starving in few hours... To each their own 😂
Carissima Katie, fai di sicuro un ottimo lavoro di divulgazione lavorando sulla cultura materiale italiana: è per questo che ti scrivo nella nostra lingua (magari qualche tuo lettore anglofono avrà voglia di studiare italiano e svincolarsi dal tormentone "ciao bella"). Si dice troppo e a sproposito della colazione dolce italiana. Non è stato sempre così: fin quando il nostro paese è stato un paese agricolo la colazione era salata e cambiava di regione in regione. Si usava molta polenta al nord, magari con formaggio o addirittura aringa (per chi poteva permetterseli); pane, pomodori,, cipolle, olive al sud. Quasi nessuno poteva permettersi il lusso dei salumi: era spesso una colazione/pranzo fatta a metà mattinata. E' stata la Prima Guerra Mondiale a cambiare le abitudini: era più facile per l'esercito distribuire latte, caffè e pane. Molti giovani italiani hanno assaggiato per la prima volta il caffè nel momento dell'arruolamento. Spero di esserti stato utile. buon lavoro.
veramente in Sardegna si è sempre bevuto il classico tazzone di latte( di pecora o di capra) col pane inzuppato dentro. Cosa che serviva anche da cena, spesso e volentieri, nelle case contadine.
@@casomai fino agli anni 60 anche nel Lazio pane inzuppato nel latte (compresa la popolazione meno ricca di Roma) e nelle campagne anche pane e ricotta di pecora senza neanche lo zucchero. Un bacio alla Sardegna
I guess I must have a little Italian in me (not). As a kid growing up my go to breakfast was tea and chocolate cake (we're talking 10 to 15 or so). When I'm at my house in Italy, it's throwback time as colazione is a cornetto con crema & with caffe lungo.
Grew up in Rome but never actually been a fan of the italian breakfast, always prefered the american one (without the bacon haha). But i love your videos you have a stunning personality, subscribed!
I'm super-Italian and (quite standard...) I would never quit my cuisine and diet for foreign ones (which doesnt mean i dont enjoy single dishes, like one through a whole meal! - in fact i have more of them than Italian ones, anyway).BUT!! after a few years in the UK, and then back to Italy, i absolutely love more food for breakfast now! Then can even skip lunch if i need to. First a little sweetend tea and fette biscottate - yeah. Coffee is not good on an empty stomach. Then definitely some kinda English breakfast/brunch. Or a little smoked herring, maybe. Yeah!! :D
Hi Katie, I'm Italian and I live in Italy and I love your videos ❤️ Just wanna tell you that it looks more like "Colomba Pasquale" than "Panettone" Btw love u❤️
Interesting enough, I think most of your audience or at least a good chunk of it is Italian. Which you might think: why would an Italian be interested in an 'italian breakfast tutorial' ? I think the reason is we think so low of ourselves that we are happy to see a foreigner saying good things about us. Although in this case 'foreigner' is not the correct word since you are officially Italian, but you know what I mean. To be honest, we also like to check foreigners opinions to see if they say something incorrect about us :D anyway, great content, we need more Italians like you.
This is a big problem in Italy. The media lies in a very EXCESSIVE way to the Italian public and Italians believe it: twitter.com/heimbergecon/status/1388433539516051457?s=20
The "cakes" and "cookies" might seem strange to Americans as breakfast foods but any normal American would taste Italian cakes and cookies and say they aren't very sweet AT ALL! Italian's use way less sugar, there's no frosting on their cake...etc. Also, they are eaten in moderation so it's actually well balanced and healthy in my opinion! Great video Katie!
Common cakes in US are super sweet almost almost all sugar. I like sweet in the morning but when in America it's impossible to eat sweets because incredible rich and sweet. We have a word for that: stucchevole.
I think mixing things in Italy is not usual in general. I don't know anyone who would mix cereals or pasta! When I was a child my mum sometimes would mix 2 kinds of pasta to finish two different packs and I would be so mad lol :)
Too many to count... and we haven't even been able to explore that much because of lockdown. Obviously the port and Cathedral here in Trani are a wonderful wander. Castel del monte in Andria is cool for hikes. Polignano a Mare is just awesome the way it's built on a cliff. But you really gotta head south to Salento for the best beaches and clear blue waters.
It is a little bit same with Azerbaijan. Here we love to eat jam with bread , oats and sweets. we do eat cake if we have at home for breakfast. Only sour food we eat for breakfast are cheese and eggs.
All this is coming from what our grand parents were eating for breakfast when we were a poor country. Milk and stale bread or milk and polenta leftovers here in the North. You should try it once, maybe ask to some granpas and grandmas there 😉. BTW that cereals mixing triggers my OCD sooooo much! 😅
Reading your book right now -- but trying not to gorge on the whole thing at once. Loving it. Maybe you and Jen should team up to write -- that would be fun!! This was a great episode -- would love to see more from breakfast around the WORLD!
As an Italian i approve. We love to have our sweet breakfast instead of a salty one , also , we love to finish lunch and dinner with a black coffee. Fun to say that we crave for all the junk food that you have in your country and we haven't here ! PS : When we see someone drinking CAPPUCCINO while eating SPAGHETTI , we are really pissed off haha
For me, as a Norwegian, both Italian and American breakfasts are so weird and might be looked at as unhealthy in Norway. Here, it's all about whole grain bread! Often topped with something savory. The more grains, the better XD Personally, I could eat croissants and drink cappuccino for breakfast every day.
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Italy sure looks like heaven especially, the food. 😤😤😤
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It's alway nice to see ourselves reflected in the eyes of other cultures.
As an Italian I've always wondered who ever could want to cook something at early morning? We Italians love to cook very much for lunch and for dinner, but, as you wake up, you surely don't want to mess up with pans in the kitchen to fry something.
Just saying..
Italian food causes diabetes too. All the flour in pizza and pasta turns to sugar in the body causing diabetes
@@patriciamartin6550 Italians are probably the top 3 healthiest people. That's mainly because we eat so much more fruit and veggies than most of the other Western countries (while Asian countries are probably better than us in this). Eating so much veggies means that most of the time the carbs are eaten with plenty of fiber. Fiber has the important role to regulate the sugar level in your bloodstream. This, along with a lower amount of animal fat and in general better sources of fats in our diet means that we have less chances of getting heart conditions, obesity and diabetes (which is almost always associated with obesity)
Branc, I am Italian and I like salty breakfast sometimes... Never eat a sweet one!!!!
@@patriciamartin6550 but we don't have the rate of obesity like you have in the US!!!! 60x100 of US adult is obese in the United States, here is one in a million... Or two million. It is not the only flour or only the pasta that makes you to become fat, but the way you cook it, using too much fat in the (condimento?) and eating too much fat together with it, like people use to have in country as the US: pizza hut is full of fat, for example...
As a matter of fact, I think is more healthy to eat a good homemade pizza or a good plate of pasta than eating at McDonald's at breakfast, lunch and dinner... Or other junk food many people use to swallow in your country.
Morgan Spurlock has shown what can happen to people if they eat only hamburgers, fried chicken and such in his documentary Supersize me...
Having some sweet breakfast Is sooo unhealthy, only italians eat like that. The other people eat salty breakfast which gives you energy and it's the most important meal during a day. That's why you always tired and slooow
Italian living in Italy here. I really appreciate the way you talk about Italian food in your videos. It's evident you've put a lot of research in your videos and that you've actually talked with Italian people. I find your content to be super accurate and deep, unlike what I usually tend to see on American channels. Bonus added for using singular and plural properly ( I hate to hear "a bischotti" or stuff like that).
Keep on the good work!
Oh this means so much. Grazie mille!
I remember buying a croissant (cornetto) at a bar a few years ago not realising it was filled with Nutella! Boom, everywhere!
The best kind of surprise!
Italian breakfasts are the best! I've definitely switched to Italian. I was never a big breakfast person but something sweet with a coffee is the best!
Many compliments from Italy! We're proud that our breakfast is spreading around the world :D
We usually eat sweet breakfast because you need very quick energy for your working day. And what gives you the electricity to start the day are sugar and coffee (espresso).
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I am a blood donor and my sugar level is optimal.
It is also true that the United States has one of the highest percentage of fat people in the world. Definitely I think espresso and brioche are a better breakfast than eggs and bacon.
I’m Italian and I live in Australia with my super Aussie partner, the other day he saw me having a cup of warm milk and a slice for breakfast and he was shocked “cake for breakfast?!?!!” 🤣 savory breakfast makes me nauseated, biscotti, fette biscottate and torta all my life!!
Breakfast cakes are "dry" cakes, without creams or with jam only.
We are talking about ciambelloni, margherita cake, chocolate cake, crostate, strudel, etc.
They are dry because they must be soaked in milk or cappuccino :)
so many delicious sweets for dipping!
Correct, they are quite different from what we consider proper desserts. An italian would not eat tiramisù or for breakfast. In the Usa bakery and pastry are considered synonymous, in Italy bakery products are for breakfast, pastry products are eaten after lunch or dinner. If we were int he Us, we would consider muffins, donuts and cookies as proper breakfast food, and cheese cake, key lime pie, red velvet, as desserts
@@lookone80 Grazie Luca per la tua precisazione. Un dolce è un dolce, una torta è un'altra cosa. A un italiano non verrebbe mai in mente di mangiarsi una torta per colazione! Grazie veramente di cuore.
@@lookone80 perfect! Crostata is the typical example of a cake that is 100% ok for breakfast. Cannoli or bignè, not at all.
perfect explanation !!
My parents came from Italy. This is how I grew up. When I was little, I had a very milky coffee ( we start them young)with biscotti that I would dip into the coffee.
Yummmm
My parents were also Italian immigrants and I would have the same every morning
That's amazing! As an Italian I was forbidden from drinking coffee before the age of 15/16. And the same for my friends.
They say it's bad for children. We usually make "caffè d'orzo" for children, which is a fake coffee made of barley.
It is called a Cappucinno.
@@tlacorp.3813 No froth. More like a milk caffe but with even less coffee, less like a cappuccino.
My favourite thing ever: having leftover Panettone for breakfast during Christmas time or maybe even a little later... let's say around the 15th of January when Christmas is over but you still have one or two Panettoni left and you just have it for breakfast with a nice mug of caffellatte. Pro tip: keep some Panettone around til February so you can have some for San Biagio ;)
I wish I could eat panettone all day every day 😂😂
Leftover panettone for breakfast is a superitalian thing!
The History of Biscotti : Originally made as a long-shelf-life food for travelers and carried by the Roman Legions, today’s biscotti are a popular accompaniment to cappuccino and a classic with Vin Santo. Originally flavored with almonds, they are now made in dozens of flavors. Though modern biscotti are associated with the Tuscan region of Italy, the popular Italian cookie traces its origins to Roman times. The word biscotto derives from “bis,” Latin for twice, and “coctum” or baked (which became “cotto,” or cooked). The Roman biscotti were more about convenience food for travelers rather than a pleasurable treat for leisurely diners. Unleavened, finger-shaped wafers were baked first to cook them, then a second time to completely dry them out, making them durable for travel and nourishment for the long journeys-Pliny boasted that they would be edible for centuries. Biscotti were a staple of the diet of the Roman Legions. After the fall of the Roman Empire in 455 C.E, the country was repeatedly sacked by the Visigoths, the Vandals and others. The people did their best to survive; there was no culinary development. But with the Renaissance, cuisine also flowered. Biscotti re-emerged in Tuscany, credited to a Tuscan baker who served them with the local sweet wine. Their dry, crunchy texture was deemed to be the perfect medium to soak up the wine (and how much more flavorful than dunking a donut in coffee!). Centuries later, many still agree that dipping biscotti into Vin Santo is a perfect way to end a meal, or to while away an hour at a café
Thanks for sharing! And thanks for watching!
This is really spot on! As an Italian I can completely relate, I grew up on 'macine' or 'gocciole' biscuits in the morning 😂
grazie!
Macine e Galletti ❤️
Gocciole rule! I recently found them at the Italian deli here in Brisbane, Australia!
this is exactly how breakfast in Argentina is lol the italian influence in our cuisine is insane
Yu even have our Bagna Caoda, which is unheard of in all Italy with exception of Piemonte :D
you know what, i am subscribing, so much effort and energy in just one random video. Love it. You got it and I'll be watching your videos from now on!
Ciao! Yes we do eat a light breakfast, well the idea behind is simple. You want something fast that wake you up and start your day. If during the morning you get hungry again, we eat a “snack” mid morning, like focaccia, un panino or similar usually salty, to carry us until lunch. We do a similar thing in the afternoon as well where we may eat something to get us to dinner. We call those period “merenda” which every youth probably eat daily. Also people that are athletic or doing manual work usually eat at one or both of those times. That would a good video to do (so that people don’t think we just run on sugar). Hope it help 😀
OMG I think I might need to take in a dip in la dolce vita kind of breakfast this weekend 😜 LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!
Right back atcha. I’m still convinced you grew up having the best breakfasts!
This is not only Italian btw, it is french, spanish and portuguese as well.
Exactly. I saw that in Spain.
I'm not Italian although I've spent a few summers in Italy at my godmother's and I usually eat a sweet breakfast at home. My favourite from the Italian breakfast foods are pan di stelle both the cookie and the cake forms
I LOVE pan di stelle!
Spain is similar. They have those little cafe bars with a multitude of pastries. An unbelievable amount of those cafe bars in every town.
Well us Sudanese have lot in common with our italian brother when it comes to breakfast. Rarely we eat salty stuff esrly morning. We drink cup of tea with milk and some types of cookies. Easte Sudan drink coffee alot. But we do have brunch where people eat ful or falafel sandwich, cheese sandwich along with another cup of tea or coffee
In Italian cuisine, it is about the amount you eat --- not excess and also the light breakfast is a bit of a light fast before heavier lunch and dinner meals.
I'm Italian and I didn't expect that you find Italian breakfast weird ahaha
You're such excited about things that are quite normal here that you make me enthusiastic again for my tradition too... So thank you ahaha
Well, actually, there are also some little mistakes about Italian breakfast, I'm so sorry to tell you... But nothing really important ahaha
For instance, you must eat your breakfast sit down, Never walking down the street. Then, it's better to eat with friends if you go to the bar for having breakfast.
We usually prefer to cook it for our own at home, and then go to work or to school.
But as I already said, don't worry, those are meaningless things, except for this it's almost alright ❤️🤗
Thanks for watching!
I'm Italian but I love Greece and the best is Greek yogurt and high quality honey ( there's a lot of adulterated honey in commerce).
You must try it.
Greek yogurt is the best, I eat it frequently with local, raw, unfiltered honey.
I start with italian breakfast and I finish with a touch of irish one. Greek yogurt in between! Probably the best way to feel on vacation during the lockdown.😎
Now you’re talking. ALL THE BREAKFASTS.
in fairness in Italy there is also a traditional savory breakfast.Example in Genoa the simple focaccia or onion with cappuccino in the morning is famous, fried dumplings and coffee in Modena, pizza with mortadella, figs or anchovies and flowers of pumpkin, suppli or cod fillet sandwiches with the spianata o corallina in Rome.throughout Italy there is a tradition of savory breakfast even if practiced less and less to make room for the sweet one which is faster, less expensive and releases more energy immediately due to the glucose contained.
I can't wait to try all those breakfasts. I love the diversity in Italian cuisine!
for other tasty things to eat you should also visit the towns in province of Brindisi, some examples: Ceglie Messapica famous for the "Biscotto cegliese" and for the many excellent restaurants, the "Pasta reale" in Latiano, the "Fico Mandorlato" in San Michele Salentino, etc..
In some mountain places they sell plain traditional yoghurt in those old-fashioned glass jars. I prefer them too, hands down.
Yes. we've introduced some cereals in our breakfasts recently, even though in the form go bars and containing sweet ingredients like chocolate or cream. 😁
Yogurt in glass makes cry in joy
Ciao tutti! A Very well done video- In the US we are more diversified with less reliance on historical culture as a basis to define current practices. Americans can have the "sweet breakfast" as well with the typical donuts and coffee - ( a paltry substitute for true Italian flavors). Our sweet breakfasts are usually over-processed affairs with highly refined synthetic flavors. I miss the time I spent in Italy! I have lots of family in Milano and my mother was born in Bari. We still have famliy friends in Bari and Cassano-Di-Murge. All the best to you Katie!
Love your entusiasm for Italian culture 😉
Ahah I love your enthusiasm for cake for breakfast! I am Italian and still don't understand why we do that. When I was a kid, at my grandma's I used to have even coffee in home-made gelato or semifreddo, meringues, zuppa inglese, other cakes and stuff like that, which is quite nutritionally insane. Now I live in France and actually my breakfast is toast and salted butter, orange juice and an american Nescaffe' with no sugar at home and croissant/pain-au-chocolat when I go to the office. French are very very similar to Italians in this!
I love all the different ways we do breakfast around the world!
@@TheQKatie me too! I actually love big savory breakfasts, but I am not hungry enough in the morning. Also, too lazy :P
We always mixed cereals. We're Italian Americans and my grands always ate sweets for breakfast. Always light, right after, plans for the main meal of the day were made.
Been enjoying your content Katie! Keep it up! Loved this one. Thanks to Italy, I eat sweets for breakfast too 😊
Dolce is the way to go!
Here in Brazil we could eat either sweet or salty, but I think one of the most common breakfasts here (at least in the region I am at, which is São Paulo) is "Pingado e Pão na Chapa" (coffee with milk, and a bread, with butter, heated on a griddle)
I miss são paolo! I almost moved there in 2014!
@@TheQKatie Davvero? Che bello! Io sono nato in un'altra città, però vivo a San Paolo 18 anni fa! Allora il mio piano è trasferirmi in Italia e riconoscere la mia cittadinanza italiana! :)
Me too, this is a very interesting topic. In Romania, whe eat butter toast, whit tea, or milk coco
try pane, burro e zucchero!...bread(better if of the day before), butter and sugar(a tea-spoonful of sugar)
Yay - new to your whole experience but I can tell already I'm going to love it. Thanks for bringing a piece of italy to my morning....now for colazione :)
My favourite brand of yogurt Is the Vipiteno, I highly recommend the mela verde (green apple) flavour
i mix Muesli with simple corn flakes , because only muesli for my breakfast would be a little too "heavy" for my taste .
Love a good muesli mix!
In alcune zone della Sicilia, nei mesi più caldi, si usa mangiare la granita al caffè con della panna sopra. A questa si aggiunge la "brioscia" un dolce lievitato con una consistenza simile a un cornetto.
Yumm interessante!
Si mangia in tutte le zone della Sicilia. La granita esiste in decine di gusti la mia preferita e' al gelso e comunque io la mangio anche a Gennaio :)
I miss Italy. And I miss Italian language, never learnt it but I'm always fascinated by it. 😍
I'm from the UK and I guess I've been eating breakfast like an Italian my whole life! Biscuits or brioche for breakfast is self care ❤️ now that it's hot I love strawberries and unsweetened coconut yoghurt
Read your book,AMAZING!
With all the digital books I own I have listen to yours is one of the very few should I have digital and hardback❤️ your channel.
Wow thank you!!!! This is so wonderful to hear.
100% mix cereals as an American! Usually something with different textures or even a granola like cereal. Taste amazing! I also sometimes don't eat cereal with milk.. that might be weird
My typical Italian breakfast is usually a cafè latte or cappuccino w/o schiuma and whole grain dark bread with Osella soft cheese and jam or marmalade 😋 really good👍
In Genova the brakfast is focaccia simple or with onions or olive. Salty actually.
I need to try that!
Lovely video...very informative! Thank you🎉
About mixing different cereals: I did that as a child and I still do it now for the fun of mixing flavors and textures. Or, you know... to compensate the lack of one kind of cereal
Hold onto that childhood! 😂😂😂
@@TheQKatie With my very heart and soul, Katie 💪🏻
Fette biscotte are my favourites! Love Italian breakfasts! So good! Although, I tend to eat too much anyway! Cheers from Australia!
La cosa simpatica è che a Milano e credo in generale nel nord Italia, "cornetto" non significa nulla, tuttalpiù sono i fagiolini. E il cornetto nel nord italia lo chiamiamo "brioche". Se entri in un bar chiedendo un caffè e cornetto, probabilmente ti danno un gelato dell' algida! :)
In Liguria invece, perlomeno a Ponente, è molto diffuso anche “croissant” 🥐
Ahahah, da lombardo, comfermo! 😌
In Veneto diciamo cornetto
A Napoli il cornetto è cornetto, mentre la brioche è quella rotonda con la 'testa' e senza ripieno.
Io vivo a Torino e la situazione è un po’ diversa: la maggior parte dei torinesi usa la parola croissant, ma è diffuso anche l’uso di brioche e cornetto. Quindi possono essere usati tutti e tre senza incorrere in incomprensioni.
I think that what most foreigners in Italy or talking to Italians don't get is that we don't have "cake" for breakfast, but we have something similar called "ciambella", which contains less sugar most of the times and it's homemade, so it can be done with other ingredients and avoiding too many fat ingredients ;)
As like in France, fresh bread of baguettes, croissants and other sweets. But they using more butter and jam in the breads. That's my experiences.
Early before morning, people are working on to make this bakers to make sure you get fresh breads and sweets for your breakfast.
Bravissima, il tuo video è molto informativo per tutte le persone che vogliono imparare un po' di più in merito alle abitudini Italiane. Uno dei pochi video che realmente mostra quello che noi Italiani effettivamente mangiamo durante la colazione! :)
Your video is highly informative for all those people that want to know a little more with regards to Italian habits! It is really one of the few videos that truly shows what we Italians actually eat during breakfast! I enjoyed it! :)
Grazie!
I am Dutch living in the UK. Breakfast growing up was always sandwiches, either cheese or chicken, and then of course the famous 'hagelslag': chocolate sprinkles. or chocolate spread, like Nutella or a dark chocolate. I remember having a sandwich for breakfast here in the UK and my British niece (9 at the time) told me off. 'That's not breakfast!' Here I'll have cereal with yogurt, toast with jam, and every now and then we'll go out for a cooked breakfast with eggs and sausages. But of course cold pizza is still a favourite. ;)
I'm Italian and my wife is Turkish. So we share the 2 opposite sides of world breakfast: the smallest and the biggest! So often we mix them or we choose what we like the most in that particular moment from both. But in special occasions and on Sundays the result is huge, colored and tasty!
Sembra un matrimonio delizioso!
Runs parallel to your great podcast! I could get into then eating Italian breakfast everyday!!
It’s not a bad way to start! Thanks for watching and listening Janet!
I discovered your channel earlier and I love the content you are making! I am binge watching your videos now😂🤍
🙌 🙌 🙌
Love breakfast meals as well especially savory with a little sweet afterwords.
On the other hand, as you know American breakfast for the most part is also Dessert for Breakfast i.e. pancake(s) with syrup; waffles with syrup ; cereal with milk etc...
Hello, Katie.
I'm Claudia and I live in Venice. I always watch your interesting videos. You are very nice and friendy.
You know very well Italian customs, food and way of live. So, thank you for loving our Country ❤
Have a nice weekend, Katie 💟
Grazie, Claudia!
@@TheQKatie Grazie a te, Katie. Sono contenta che tu sia cittadina italiana.
Noi ti vogliamo bene.
Sorry, I have written in Italian. But I'm sure you understand 👏👏👏👏 Sorry for my English 🙏
Curiosità... in molte regioni italiane, per tradizione, la colazione di Pasqua invece è a base di "savory food", uova, salame, pizza salata al formaggio e altro ancora :)
Unica eccezione! Uova, pizza al formaggio e salame
In molte zone di campagna negli anni 50/60 Si mangiava salato prima di andare nelle campagne per lavorare...io sono in emilia,i miei nonni raccontavano questo
I want to visit Italy so badly!!!
Ciao Katie. Yep love my pannetone. Could stuff my face on it for breakfast, lunch and dinner (if my doctor or my wife would let me!). Surprised you didn't mention anything about cannoli or tiramisu with a nice coffee. My favorites!
so many sweet treats!
Muller yogurt is probably the most sugary one.. there are some brands that even if they are with fruit, they are not that sweet though. When I want a bit of flavor in my yogurt, I normally buy the white, plain kind of yogurt and then I just add a bit of organic jam from a teaspoon.
Ah, le fette biscottate! I’ve always struggled with finding the correct English translation for those… Isn’t “rusks“ a viable option? Are they the same thing? As for yogurt I’m on the same page as you, but have you noticed that more and more brands in Italian supermarkets are putting yogurt in all paper containers (apart from the aluminum top)?
wow,that's really interesting and lovely that starting day with sweets. But as a Turkish girl it's kinda far away from me :D
So basically a typical Turkish breakfast includes eggs,bread,tomatoes,cucumbers,olives and lotss of cheese etc. and at the end you take your last bite with some honey and kaymak(butterfat is the word for english i think)
That sounds delicious!!!
I'm Italian and live in Ireland. I am completely used to having eggs for breakfast or porridge, when I want to treat myself it is bread with peanut butter. I live savoury breakfast, it makes me feel more energetic in the first hours of the day. My sister lives in UK and she still has coffee with a few biscotti for breaky and claims that savoury breakfast will make her starving in few hours... To each their own 😂
Esatto! To each their own!
Carissima Katie, fai di sicuro un ottimo lavoro di divulgazione lavorando sulla cultura materiale italiana: è per questo che ti scrivo nella nostra lingua (magari qualche tuo lettore anglofono avrà voglia di studiare italiano e svincolarsi dal tormentone "ciao bella"). Si dice troppo e a sproposito della colazione dolce italiana. Non è stato sempre così: fin quando il nostro paese è stato un paese agricolo la colazione era salata e cambiava di regione in regione. Si usava molta polenta al nord, magari con formaggio o addirittura aringa (per chi poteva permetterseli); pane, pomodori,, cipolle, olive al sud. Quasi nessuno poteva permettersi il lusso dei salumi: era spesso una colazione/pranzo fatta a metà mattinata. E' stata la Prima Guerra Mondiale a cambiare le abitudini: era più facile per l'esercito distribuire latte, caffè e pane. Molti giovani italiani hanno assaggiato per la prima volta il caffè nel momento dell'arruolamento. Spero di esserti stato utile. buon lavoro.
Grazie per questo! E grazie per la visione!
veramente in Sardegna si è sempre bevuto il classico tazzone di latte( di pecora o di capra) col pane inzuppato dentro. Cosa che serviva anche da cena, spesso e volentieri, nelle case contadine.
@@casomai fino agli anni 60 anche nel Lazio pane inzuppato nel latte (compresa la popolazione meno ricca di Roma) e nelle campagne anche pane e ricotta di pecora senza neanche lo zucchero. Un bacio alla Sardegna
la tua padronanza dell'italiano migliora incredibilmente di video in video! Continua così!
Grazie!
I guess I must have a little Italian in me (not). As a kid growing up my go to breakfast was tea and chocolate cake (we're talking 10 to 15 or so). When I'm at my house in Italy, it's throwback time as colazione is a cornetto con crema & with caffe lungo.
Yummm
Grew up in Rome but never actually been a fan of the italian breakfast, always prefered the american one (without the bacon haha). But i love your videos you have a stunning personality, subscribed!
Aww grazie!
I'm super-Italian and (quite standard...) I would never quit my cuisine and diet for foreign ones (which doesnt mean i dont enjoy single dishes, like one through a whole meal! - in fact i have more of them than Italian ones, anyway).BUT!! after a few years in the UK, and then back to Italy, i absolutely love more food for breakfast now! Then can even skip lunch if i need to. First a little sweetend tea and fette biscottate - yeah. Coffee is not good on an empty stomach. Then definitely some kinda English breakfast/brunch. Or a little smoked herring, maybe. Yeah!! :D
hii, actually in Sicily we eat salty things too for breakfast!!
La nostra tavola calda!
Confermo, anche a Napoli non è raro trovare pizzette o rustici di prima mattina al bar
@@carmensicilia3974 pane e panelle!
@@petera618 palermitano presumo😁 io sono della zona orientale cmq si buonissime😊 quanto mi manca la mia sicilia!
Very good and fresh video! Keep it up!
Thank you!
Hi Katie, I'm Italian and I live in Italy and I love your videos ❤️
Just wanna tell you that it looks more like "Colomba Pasquale" than "Panettone"
Btw love u❤️
I need to go to torta school and practice some more ;) Thanks for watching!
Amazing videos, did you think about doing a video about the big food differences between the north of Italy and the south of Italy?
In Sicily is quite common to have savory breakfast by eating "pezzi di rosticceria" and this is so damn good! Katie, you definitely need to try it!
Interesting enough, I think most of your audience or at least a good chunk of it is Italian. Which you might think: why would an Italian be interested in an 'italian breakfast tutorial' ? I think the reason is we think so low of ourselves that we are happy to see a foreigner saying good things about us. Although in this case 'foreigner' is not the correct word since you are officially Italian, but you know what I mean. To be honest, we also like to check foreigners opinions to see if they say something incorrect about us :D anyway, great content, we need more Italians like you.
This is a big problem in Italy. The media lies in a very EXCESSIVE way to the Italian public and Italians believe it: twitter.com/heimbergecon/status/1388433539516051457?s=20
I Just discovered your channel, you rock!
Greek breakfast has a lot in common with Italian one plus savoury pastries ofcourse.
The "cakes" and "cookies" might seem strange to Americans as breakfast foods but any normal American would taste Italian cakes and cookies and say they aren't very sweet AT ALL! Italian's use way less sugar, there's no frosting on their cake...etc. Also, they are eaten in moderation so it's actually well balanced and healthy in my opinion! Great video Katie!
Common cakes in US are super sweet almost almost all sugar. I like sweet in the morning but when in America it's impossible to eat sweets because incredible rich and sweet. We have a word for that: stucchevole.
Stucchevole! Grazie 🙏
I love your green glasses! Where are they from?
I think mixing things in Italy is not usual in general. I don't know anyone who would mix cereals or pasta! When I was a child my mum sometimes would mix 2 kinds of pasta to finish two different packs and I would be so mad lol :)
hahaha no way. I love a good mixed pasta! Maybe I'm just a messy American...
Abbraci are my favorite 😋
Fantastic channel for english students!
I mix cereals too, but I usually mix chocoloate taste ones with white ones
a delicious mix!
the biscotti r BOMBBBBB im telling u if u visit Italy u need to try those when I come back to England I bring those biscottis with me.
Talks about the yogurt: "That's a lot of sugar!"
Eats chocolate cake for breakfast.
Any particular sights in Puglia you recommend checking out?
Too many to count... and we haven't even been able to explore that much because of lockdown.
Obviously the port and Cathedral here in Trani are a wonderful wander. Castel del monte in Andria is cool for hikes. Polignano a Mare is just awesome the way it's built on a cliff. But you really gotta head south to Salento for the best beaches and clear blue waters.
Thanks for the info!
As we all know, you can recognize Italians abroad by checking what they eat for breakfast. 😄
It is a little bit same with Azerbaijan. Here we love to eat jam with bread , oats and sweets. we do eat cake if we have at home for breakfast. Only sour food we eat for breakfast are cheese and eggs.
Would love to try Azeri breakfast someday!
You’re right, there’s too much sugar in fruit yogurt. This is why I make yogurt on my own.
Homemade is the best!
All this is coming from what our grand parents were eating for breakfast when we were a poor country. Milk and stale bread or milk and polenta leftovers here in the North. You should try it once, maybe ask to some granpas and grandmas there 😉.
BTW that cereals mixing triggers my OCD sooooo much! 😅
i once had fresh lemon tarts for breakfast in Italy...nothing odd about it! makes me rethink pancakes and french toast for brekky haha
sounds delicious!
Reading your book right now -- but trying not to gorge on the whole thing at once. Loving it. Maybe you and Jen should team up to write -- that would be fun!! This was a great episode -- would love to see more from breakfast around the WORLD!
A delicious idea!!
Good video. Cant wait to go back.
As an Italian i approve. We love to have our sweet breakfast instead of a salty one , also , we love to finish lunch and dinner with a black coffee.
Fun to say that we crave for all the junk food that you have in your country and we haven't here !
PS : When we see someone drinking CAPPUCCINO while eating SPAGHETTI , we are really pissed off haha
Hai la stessa tovaglia che ha mia madre!! Che nostalgia di casa!!! Saluti dalla Finlandia!
Bravo!! Like a true Italian... oh man I want to be in Italy right now. Hugo x
For me, as a Norwegian, both Italian and American breakfasts are so weird and might be looked at as unhealthy in Norway. Here, it's all about whole grain bread! Often topped with something savory. The more grains, the better XD Personally, I could eat croissants and drink cappuccino for breakfast every day.