Trend in the USA, an Italian aperitif is best for quarantine stress - Lifestyle

Stressed by the Covid-19 quarantine? The remedy is the Italian aperitif. The famous business magazine Forbes thinks that he also recommends doing it Italian without American adaptations. A happy hour, therefore, not only based on alcohol but accompanied by snacks and which fully guarantees its original function, that of being consumed before meals to stimulate the appetite. Forbes also suggests using Italian music as the background and above all closing Zoom (videoconference platform, ed.).
    "The Aperitif usually refers to a specific drink, even non-alcoholic, consumed after work or before dinner to anticipate the meal - writes Forbes quoting Rosario Procino, a Neapolitan and co-owner of the Ribalta pizzeria in New York - is usually accompanied by appetizers ". Procino also adds that nowadays the aperitif in Italy no longer refers only to a drink rather to a place and time of day. "It is a specific moment in Italian social life" - he adds.
    In times of coronavirus, the Italian aperitif can be easily replicated at home, perhaps even better than a typical American bar can offer. The trump card is the food available at home and replicating another Italian tradition, that of entertaining guests before dinner with a drink and something light to spiluccate to prevent alcohol from doing harm.
    With supermarkets stormed for fear of running out of food during the pandemic, American home fridges are full more than usual for any comfort.
    No great skills are therefore needed to prepare a snack in a few minutes to accompany the aperitif. "Just wet the stale bread in oil on one side only - suggests Pasquale Cozzolino, Neapolitan chef transplanted to New York - then toast it in a pan and like a bruschetta season it at will with tomatoes, aubergines, cheese, or simply oil and oregano" .
    It is no coincidence that Forbes also suggests to its readers to always accompany the aperitif with savory snacks, such as chips, peanuts, olives, focaccia. Then he closes his article with a motto phrase that once again embodies an Italian tradition, 'Smile, eat, repeat' (smile, eat, repeat, ed).
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