Don't Leave Italy Without Eating These 3 Pasta Dishes 🍴🇮🇹

Imagine coming to Italy and leaving without trying its legendary pasta dishes—unthinkable, right? Join me on a delicious journey as we dive into Italy's 'holy trinity' of pasta: Spaghetti alla Carbonara, Trofie al Pesto, and Lasagna Bolognese. Get ready to discover why these dishes are unmissable on any trip to Italy!

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[DJGlenR]

Alio e Olio, Cacio Pepe and Puttanesca. The 3 best 🥰😍

[francescoarzilli]

Carbonara nel Lazio, Pesto in Liguria, Lasagne/a in Emilia. Of course you can find all of them almost everywhere in Italy and mostly they are very good 'cause italians can cook very well no matter what region, but if you want to taste the true flavour of those dishes I think you should go try them in their respective birth place regions.

[brucetidwell]

Cacio Pepe is all over Youtube. Lots of people have heard of it. I bought an extra deep wooden mortar and pestle set to make my own Pesto. Pounding fresh basil by hand really makes a huge difference! It has a whole different texture from making it in a food processor.

[hellohello-tpmb]

I’m starting to realize that the Italian food videos are my favorite, all of it looks so good and you show it off perfectly

[andrewbarber]

Thank you Gregor. I plan to go to Italy in May 2025 and your videos will be a big part of my plans. I have been several times, but it is always nice to see other perspectives.

[greg]

Hello! Nice video! In italy we say "lasagne", that's plural, because is made of different layers. At the restaurant sometime, waiters say "one lasagna" (singular) just to indicate in a fast but wrong way, "one portion of lasagne". Greatings from Italy!
Ps: you should go to north of Italy during the winter, and try "polenta uncia" and "pizzoccheri".

[joecowan]

For us it is all about what region we are in at the time:
-Spaghetti alla vongole - Venice
-Tortollini in brudo - Bologna
-Pici all'aglioni - Tuscany
-Pici con ragu di cinghiale - Firenze
-Cacio e pepe - Rome
- We just ate but now I am hungry again!!

[maurobernasconi]

Le lasagne is the correct way. La lasagna is a dialectal way to say, or sometime used in wrong way for indicate only a portion of this dish.
Lasagne is the official form.

[catw]

I’ve had the carbonara and lasagne (also at a Italian family’s house in PA) and plenty ripieni, vongoli, Buffalo cheese as in mozzarella di bufalo. Sorry if I messed up on spelling. It’s been years and memory not as good as I wish. Our temp home was situated along a canal and every once in a while the Buffalo would come down it. Didn’t count but there looked to be a healthy herd of them. Guessing 25-30?The Buffalo cheese isn’t too bad in taste, perhaps a little milkier and softer than the mozzarella that you would find in the specialty cheese section of the grocery store and yes, a little pricier than the mozzarella that you find in the cheese/dairy area (yogurts, cottage cheese, ..) .

[marcocito]

It's lasagne in the north and lasagna in the south. The recipes differ, egg pasta in the north and semolina pasta in the south.

[frank_zapping]

😋 che fame! Pesto, Carbonara sono anche le mie preferite, aggiungiamoci Pasta al ragù ( bolognese) e Pizzoccheri alla valtellinese potrei continuare per ore 😅

[YouMeandSicily]

What about Pasta alla norma? MUST have in Sicily. Pasta alle Trapanese ? Pasta con le Sarde? I could go on. FUN video! GRAZIE !

[Stograncaz]

If you can't go to Liguria to try pesto and want to try one from a supermarket, you should probably buy Novella pesto. They are a pasta laboratory from Sori, where for locals is where the best pesto is made, that started to produce and distribute to supermarkets around 15 years ago. You should find it easily in all the north and center regions of Italy.

[Positiveenergy]

Tried Carbonara as well as CACIO e Pepe and amatriciana in Rome two weeks ago and didn't care for any of them. I was sad. I had some awesome Lasagne in Rome and some exceptional Spaghetti al Pomodoro in Rome and Calabria.

[claudiotagini]

tagliatelle is an egg-dough pasta, totally different from the (wonderful, but different) pasta that is from durum wheat semolina. That wheat didn't exist in the north, so they HAD to add eggs to make the soft wheat flour (sort of like the "all purpose flour", with which you can't make spaghetti, but you can make ravioli, tagliatelle, lasagne, etc. etc.)

[liviaproiettigaffi]

Lasagna...Lasagne...I think it's pretty much the same. Va bene lo stesso, comunque non sbagli. Probably LasagnA (singular) is used because we (not me😅) cook it in the oven in a pan as a singular huge portion.
Bucatini Greg, bucatini 😊
Bravo 💕😻
Listen to him, trust Greg, he knows a lot!

[frankcaruso]

Gregor,
Love the vids. I have a question regarding working in Italy. How are the work hours done there. Do they take a long lunch break? If you shop for food every day, when do you go shopping?

[cesarchavarria]

drooling. Any recommendations for guides or restaurants in Bologna? (April)?

[pashminagal]

Gregor, can you seek out the elusive pasta alla zozonna.
From the videos I've seen you can find it in Rome
It's my secret mission next time I come to Italy to find it!

[brians]

I’m heading to Italy next week and your comment on your mom’s lasagna resounded with me. I have been to Italy once before and had lasagna in Rome. My mom’s was much better! No Italian heritage, and a bastardized version with cottage and Colby cheese, but it’s definitely ingrained on me that is my standard.