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Trieste is a city where many different influences come together, a place whose history can be "read" by tasting its most traditional dishes.
Since the eighteenth century, different peoples and cultures have migrated to the city, resulting in a unique mixture of flavours and tastes that beautifully combines Mediterranean and Central European cuisines.
The existing traditions of Friuli and the Slovenian hinterland mixed and merged with those brought by Austrians, Slovakians, Hungarians, Bohemians and Ashkenazi Jews, the traditions of the Middle East, Slavonia, Serbia and Asia Minor, and influences from Istrian, Dalmatian, Greek and Sephardic Jewish dishes.
After the region was annexed to Italy in 1918, a preponderance of exquisitely Mediterranean flavours and traditions such as pasta and pizza was added.
