Italian Flag dinner consists of layers of polenta, spinach/basil, and tomato sauce, topped with melted mozzarella cheese. Many of the techniques for making this dish have a long history in Italian cooking, but the ingredients come from all over the world. For example, polenta is made from corn a new world product but the slow cooking to produce creamy grain gruel, was very common. Tomatoes are new world, spinach is from Asia, basil from India and traditional mozzarella would be made from Asian water buffalo milk. Italian folktales follow this pattern – a blending which produces fulfilling and uniquely Italian stories.
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