Regional Cooking & Cuisine of Friuli, Italy

The region of Friuli is shown above in red

Friuli is best known for the best white wines, Pinot Grigio, once part of a bigger kingdom, which also included veneto, you will see apples grown here, not lemons. Mytho-Europa, Pinot bianco is a good wine, not a lot of oak, pinot noir. We see more influences of German, Austrian and even Asian cooking in the language, but even the cuisine.  Often, you will not see olive oil used in some dishes, but lard instead.  The olive trees to not grow all the way up through Friuli, so the thing about Italian cooking, is that they use what is available to them, in this case, it would be the fat from the pig.