The food in Malta

The ingredients of traditional Maltese cuisine is mainly fish and vegetables. The rabbitdishes, very popular today, were once a rarity. There are very few animals that live in freedom on the island and wild rabbits are small and infrequent. Rabbits are used todayare almost always farmed. The kitchen on the island was influenced by the many powers that occupied it for centuries. Who has ever been to Sicily, Turkey and North Africa, many things will sound familiar. For a long time Maltese food was not much in demand. The tourists could onlyget it in simple bars some villages. In recent years, demand rose sharply, so that today the more upscale restaurants offering traditional dishes. In tourist areas there are also branches of the best known fast food chains and lettersalmost every restaurant there are dishes from nearby Italy. Before the island to expandthe use of electric cooking, food is cooked in small clay pots over hot stones. Still the fishis cooked slowly in this way.