{"id":1014,"date":"2021-03-05T05:38:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/top-places-to-visit-in-northern-europe-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-03-23T02:39:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T02:39:22","slug":"best-and-most-interesting-dishes-in-southern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/best-and-most-interesting-dishes-in-southern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Best (and most interesting) Dishes in Southern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1014\" class=\"elementor elementor-1014\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-51093c1 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-stretched 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class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-165516e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"165516e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Immersing yourself in the local culture involves getting in amongst their traditional dishes and delicacies. I\u2019ve traveled through <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/category\/europe\/southern\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Southern Europe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> quite a few times over the years (I\u2019m a bit partial to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/idyllic-beach-spots-in-southern-europe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">beach life<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and each time I\u2019ve made a point to try at least one new dish in each of the places I visit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, I have to say that sure, sometimes it may not have been the tastiest meal I\u2019d ever had, but more often than not my openness to new foods has certainly paid off. Like always, the following dishes are the absolute tastiest <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in my own opinion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; you may well dislike one or more of them and really enjoy the ones I found a little\u2026 underwhelming.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Albo\u0301ndigas.jpg\" alt=\"Albo\u0301ndigas\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Albo\u0301ndigas.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Albo\u0301ndigas-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Albo\u0301ndigas-1024x943.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Albo\u0301ndigas-768x708.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Albo\u0301ndigas-1536x1415.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Albo\u0301ndigas-1568x1445.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Albo\u0301ndigas-150x138.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p><h2><b><i>Alb\u00f3ndigas<\/i><\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visiting the lovely Spain, the first time I tried Alb\u00f3ndigas (Spanish meatballs), I fell in love and ended up eating them almost every day I was there &#8211; and do so every time I\u2019ve visited since! They\u2019re seriously good, but not often actually served at dinner time (though dinner\u2019s served pretty late, around 10pm or so) but instead snacked on in the early evening at \u2018tapas time\u2019.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve tried all types &#8211; pork, beef, veal and mixes of each together &#8211; and have never been disappointed with my food decision once.<\/span><\/p><h2><b><i>Margherita pizza<\/i><\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I guess you\u2019d call these a margherita; Italy is well known as the origin country of the pizza, and if you spend some time there as a pizza lover, I think it\u2019s important that you at least taste the OG \u2018za during your stay. There\u2019s no shortage of pizza joints to be found all over Italy, but for some truly authentic neapolitan style slices, I couldn\u2019t go past Pizzeria Frida in Palermo.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Depending on where you\u2019re from, you might be used to deep-dish or standard crust, but generally outside of Italy, it\u2019s common to see a mountain of toppings laid on top of each other before being put into the oven. Traditional Italian pizza, though, is quite the opposite. Less is more, in fact, and you\u2019ll get just a small amount of sauce, tomatoes, mozzarella and a sprig of basil over the top before it heads into the wood-fired oven. And it is simply magnificent.<\/span><\/p><h2><b><i>Carbonara<\/i><\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s really nothing better than a perfectly-cooked bowl of creamy spaghetti carbonara that\u2019s been prepared by a chef who knows exactly what they\u2019re doing. Head to the Lazio region of Italy (the area just around Rome) and you\u2019ll be met with a few restaurants that invented the dish and, as such, are just the top-tier chefs that\u2019ll make your carbonara dreams come true.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, when in Rome (yup, I went there), do as the Romans and head to Marco G restaurant! It\u2019s got THE most delicious carbonara I\u2019ve ever had in my life and it was pretty darn well-priced at just \u20ac9.<\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Halloumi-cheese.jpg\" alt=\"Halloumi cheese\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Halloumi-cheese.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Halloumi-cheese-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Halloumi-cheese-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Halloumi-cheese-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Halloumi-cheese-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Halloumi-cheese-1568x1176.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Halloumi-cheese-853x640.jpg 853w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Halloumi-cheese-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p><h2><b><i>Halloumi cheese<\/i><\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cyprus offers a lot of amazing dishes. Halloumi cheese, which originated there, is incredibly versatile and can be used not just in salads and starters but also due to its high melting point, is a great grilling and frying cheese too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of its popularity in the area, you\u2019ll find it in pretty much every Cypriot restaurant that offers traditional local foods in lots of different dishes &#8211; try out as many as you can while you\u2019re visiting!<\/span><\/p><p><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gyros-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gyros-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gyros-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gyros-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gyros-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gyros-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gyros-1568x2090.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gyros-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cedricokiorina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gyros-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p><h2><b><i>Gyros<\/i><\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take a pita and fill it with (vertical) rotisserie meats like pork and\/or chicken, chopped tomatoes, onion, lettuce and tzatziki, roll it all up and you\u2019ve got yourself a mouth-watering Greek gyro (pronounced yee-ro).\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my opinion, the best place to get these is from a street vendor &#8211; look for one that has a few locals already there ordering and you\u2019ll be in giro heaven in no time at all.<\/span><\/p><\/div><p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-438cdbd elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"438cdbd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best (and most interesting) Dishes in Southern Europe Immersing yourself in the local culture involves getting in amongst their traditional dishes and delicacies. 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