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The food is an emotion, in fact the emotions connected with the smell and the taste are among the first that a human being experiences: for this reason a good food will be always one of the most gratifying moments of the day. Each flavour, smell resume in itself memories, sensations, that are basic for deciding if it is good for us: think to those dishes whose taste remember your childhood. Maybe nowadays they are not so good, but you eat them gladly as they activate nice memories. Then there are dishes tasting of success, as we connect them with moments of particular celebrations or events, of cuddles due to the fact that somebody cook them for making us happy, of “Christmas”… Generally we contact the cuisines of other cultures when we travel, both for holydays and work, and an important experience of our travel will be also the food. For me for Travelled back home it happens to be "hungry" of Greece, India, Mexico…we wish revive a little that experience. So we can go to a restaurant or try ourselves.
But coming back home there is a problem: to find the ingredients! Some are available in the “ethnic” (…bad word!) shops, other in the supermarkets, other on internet…but other are not available. Then rise fusion recipes: they are recipes inspired by a specific culture, but modified for cooking them in Italy. Sometime the result is good, and you can find them here, sometime Other fusion recipes are the result of a more creative cuisine: after having made practice with an ingredient I think : “what will happen if…” The start point is always a spice, like the curry powder, a fruit, a preparation like the cuscus, a rice kind or the coco milk, but also the abnormal zucchinis production of my garden that makes me troubled with the problem “How can I cook them in some different manner?”. The challenge is to try new dishes, diverging from known tastes. Our suggestion is to experience at first the ingredient trough the traditional recipes (if it became traditional it means that many people liked it…). In this manner we learn how it works while cooking, which flavour and smell it combines with, which images it evokes: at this point let your fantasy produce!
We invite you to share this experience: mail your recipes to fusion@cucinafusion.com. Not only the fusion recipes, but also the traditional of your country . If you want to tell the recipe history or your emotion connected with it also better!
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