Why don't Italians eat cucumber?

I literally went to the supermarket two days ago and bought cucumbers because my wife asked me to grab them for dinner on the way home. Sure, we have a more multicultural cuisine than most Italians in our house but it's basically 99% “Italian” and she still needed cucumbers for the evening meal. read more

Indeed, I used to grow cucumbers myself in my vegetable garden. The point is, there are so many vegetables available in Italy that (with the possible exception of tomato) there is no dominant one, so you may well have missed cucumbers in your Italian experience. read more

I mean those weird bits of food lore passed down unquestioningly from generation to generation: the strange taboos and enthusiasms that are often radically different from culture to culture, like the Japanese prohibition against combining clams and clementines, or the deep-rooted Italian conviction that cucumbers make you burp. read more

At Breakfast I generally drink a cup of Tea with some Biscuits (in Italy we don't eat much for Breakfast). Some others eat milk with cereals or cappuccino with croissant. At lunch (12.30 /13.00 p.m) we always eat a dish based on carbohydrates, that is generally Pasta. read more