THE WONDERS OF LOCAL CUISINE, The Wonders Of Local Cuisine

Hi, my name’s James, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to the wonderful flavors of Milanese cooking.

Milan is the most cosmopolitan city in Italy, so it offers the opportunity to sample all sorts of dishes from all over the world, as well as to try a number of typical local specialties.

The city’s most emblematic dish is ossobuco, a cut of beef with the bone in the center, cooked with vegetables and herbs; the marrow is also eaten.

You’ll find the more common version, with tomatoes, or another one without tomatoes, served with “gremolada”, a mix of chopped parsley, garlic and lemon rind.

You may have heard of risotto alla Milanese: this is a dish of rice cooked in chicken stock with plenty of saffron. Until a few decades ago, Milan was surrounded by rice fields, and risotto is a typical feature in local home cooking; you’ll find other risottos on the menus here, with mushrooms, asparagus, or even pears and strawberries.

Cotoletta alla milanese is another very popular dish. In the classic recipe, a veal chop is coated with egg and breadcrumbs and fried, while the more recent version, also known as orecchio di elefante, or elephant’s ear, is boneless and before frying it is pounded until very thin....