15 Life-Changing Cooking Secrets You Can Learn From Italians

While we might start a party with a toast, Italians really know how to get a dinner party started: by cracking open a whole wheel of parmesan cheese. Preshredded cheese pales in comparison, and if you're a serious parmesan connoisseur, it might be worth the cost and effort for a special occasion.

It's quite the splurge at roughly $2,500, but if it's something your heart truly desires — you can even serve pasta in the parmesan wheel like Chrissy Teigen — you might be able to justify the price.