Common dishes; foods eaten; cooking techniques and cooking equipment: Even though Italy has been known for foods such as pizza, pasta, and tomato sauce, the national diet of Italians is different in every region. Before the mixing of cooking styles in the different regions, you could tell what region the food you were eating was from because of the regions’ usage of fat. The type of fat mostly used in the northern region was butter, Italians ate pork fat in the region in the middle of Italy, and the type of fat eaten in the south was olive oil. Some types of meals in the northern part of Italy were rice and polenta. In the south, pasta was a very well known food. In the twentieth century(1980 and 1990) pasta and pizza started to become more