f you like your pasta covered in ketchup or think risotto is a side dish, then you haven't quite got the hang of Italian cooking, it has been revealed.
The two culinary mistakes have been included on a tongue-in-cheek list released by the Academia Barilla in Parma - an institution dedicated to defending 'Italian food products made by reputable artisans and certified denominations against poor quality imitations'.
The list of kitchen no-no's, as the Independent on Sunday reports, has been released in order to 'teach foreigners how to avoid culinary horrors' when making Italian food.
Not Italian: Spaghetti Bolognese is unknown - because inhabitants eat the sauce with tagliatelle instead
Culinary catastrophes: Pasta and ketchup do not mix while cappuccino is for breakfast only
Along with putting ketchup on your pasta, described by the Academia as 'a true culinary sin', the list also includes treating risotto and pasta as a side dish, sipping cappuccino during a meal and using red and white checked tablecloths in a bid for authenticity.
'Pasta served as if it were a vegetable is a mistake committed in many other countries but in Italy is considered sacrilegious,' Gennaro Contaldo, food author and mentor of Jamie Oliver told the Independent.
'I used to see this combination of everything on a plate in Italian restaurants in the Seventies when I first came to England - I'm glad to say this has died out.'
Those who like to sip a cappuccino while enjoying their supper have also got it wrong, as according to the Academia, Italians have the milky coffee only at breakfast and will not drink it at any other time of day.
And there was bad news for fans of a savoury Spaghetti Bolognese supper, after the dish was slammed by the Academia as inauthentic, while dishes that combine pasta and chicken were also revealed to be a foreign invention.
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In Bologna, bolognese sauce is traditionally served with tagliatelle and not spaghetti says the Academia, while pasta with chicken - although regarded as typically Italian by Americans - is never eaten in Italy.
'Americans regard this [chicken and pasta] as typically Italian,' says the report, ' but we have to tell you: no one in Italy would serve such a dish.'
Along with Bolognese and chicken and pasta, another favourite revealed to be inauthentic was the Caesar salad.
Although invented by an Italian, Caesar Cardini, it has never been classed as an Italian dish and isn't known in the country in which it is usually thought to originate.
COMMON CULINARY FAUX PAS: THE ACADEMIA BARILLA'S LIST IN FULL
NEVER DRINK A CAPPUCCINO DURING A MEAL
A cappuccino is for breakfast and ideally should be drunk with something sweet. Although the Academia concedes it can be ordered afterwards, it points out that an Italian never would.
RISOTTO AND PASTA ARE NOT SIDE DISHES
Unless you're serving it as part of a specialty dish such as l'Ossobuco alla milanese, it's a faux pas.
DON'T PUT OIL IN THE PASTA WATER
Oil should be added after cooking.
DON'T PUT KETCHUP ON PASTA
'A true culinary sin', says the Academia.
SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE DOESN'T EXIST IN BOLOGNA
They eat their Bolognese sauce with tagliatelle and not spaghetti.
PASTA WITH CHICKEN IS NOT ITALIAN
'No one in Italy would ever serve such a dish,' says the report.
CAESAR SALAD IS NOT ITALIAN EITHER
Its inventor was but the dish is not.
RED AND WHITE CHECKED TABLECLOTHS ARE UNKNOWN IN ITALY
Although that hasn't stopped every 'Italian' restaurant not in the country from using them.
FETTUCCINE ALFREDO: ALSO NOT ITALIAN
While it was invented in Rome, the dish is entirely unknown in Italy.
FOOD IS FOR FAMILY TIME
Eating alone in front of the TV is not the Italian way. Instead, says the report, you should respect tradition (and your mamma) and share supper times with those you love.
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