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Interviewer : I like to cook Italian food. Please ask me three or four questions about cooking Italian food.

You mentioned cooking Italian.
I’d like to know if Italian foods always use/contain tomato in cooking.
How many kinds of pasta are there in Italian foods/do Italian foods have?

A famous Italian food is pizza.
What do you think of Korean delivery pizza compared to the original Italian Pizza?
What do you think of its taste? How does it taste/What does it taste like?

After having an Italian food, we are always served with a desert - Espresso coffee or latte.
Do you always have it after having an Italian food?
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Interviewer: I like to cook Italian food.
Me: How many do you usually cook for?
Interviewer: Just two.
Me: Do you make your own pasta?
Interviewer: Are you crazy? I buy that stuff.
Me: Could you cook some spaghetti and meatballs? I'll bring the cheesecake.
Interviewer: It's a deal!
 

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A: Do Italian foods always have tomatoes?
B: It's for the sauce. I think some sauces are made without tomatoes.
 

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"Do Italian foods always use/contain tomato in cooking?" doesn't work.

A food is, generally, a single item. Potatoes don't contain tomato whether you cook the potatoes or not.

Do Italian dishes always contain tomato?

That covers both hot (cooked) and cold (uncooked) dishes.
 

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You could ask how good Korean delivery pizza is.
 

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You could say:

How many kinds of pasta are there?

Perhaps:

Which do you like better--delivery or takeout?

Perhaps:

What does it taste like?

Perhaps:

After eating Italian food we always have dessert--espresso or latte.
 

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Perhaps:

Do you always have dessert after eating Italian food?

(Please note that I never say an Italian food. (But I can't stop you from doing it.))
 

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Neither an espresso or a latte constitute dessert. Generally, after a meal, we have either coffee or dessert (or both).
 

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Quite right. (I should have pointed that out myself.) Keannu, we drink coffee before, during or after a meal, but dessert almost always comes afterwards. (Think: cheesecake.)
 

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Is Korean pizza good?
 

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Depending on its types, it's different. I think fire pot pizza like the Italian one is a lot more tasty than oven ones.
Some Korean pizza restaurants have introduced fire pot pizza recipe from Italy and sell them, and its best point is it's not as oily as oven ones.
 

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Depending on its types, it's different. I think fire pot pizza like the Italian one is a lot more tasty than oven ones.
Some Korean pizza restaurants have introduced fire pot pizza recipes from Italy and sell them, and its best point is it's not as oily as oven ones.

I think you mean they sell the pizzas, not the recipes.
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