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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This only partly answers the question, but- I was stunned about how awful the food was in Italy. I wanted to pull them aside and teach them how to cook Italian food.

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I think maybe you were eating at the wrong places.[/quote]

It's either a troll. Or a high school student wanting to be cool by being contrary. Or someone who was genuinely, genuinely and terribly unlucky. I suspect either of the first two (or both). Italy is possibly the easiest country to eat well of all the countries in Europe and the Western world. Although I do remember one school trip to Italy decades ago when we were served the same boring spaghetti and simple tomato sauce every night for dinner but it was hardly awful and we had opportunities to eat other things during lunches and for snacks (and ate very well). [/quote]

Or some horrible NY Italian who has never been to Italy before, says Mootsarell, Gabagool, and Galamar and thinks their Nonni's lasagna made with ground chuck and canned Parmesan cheese is the true way to cook Italian.  There is nothing worse than a NY Italian on a trip to Italy.   Well except maybe a NY Italian thinking they know how to cook

LAUGHING my ass off!  :lol: Mootsarell....ha! [/quote]

Ha! I just checked back and saw all these responses to my horrible Italian food experience. To settle the debate, I’m a regular mom, not in high school, not from NY or ethnically Italian. I have talked to a few other people who had a similar experience and I’ve been told that we were just unlucky. I did have good artichokes in Rome and I liked the cacio y pepe. But my real issue was that Italian food seems to be a lot of pasta tossed in a tiny bit of sauce. Occasionally I would order an unadorned, emaciated fish for an additional €40 or some extortionate price. It was miserable, especially since I was pumped to go to a country famous for food. I’ll go to Italy again but I’m packing some clif bars next time. [/quote]

I ate really well in Italy, but I can sympathize with your experience.  We had super average food in Paris.  Probably because we weren't "in the know" - we went to a lot of those charming parisian cafes (that seemed to be filled with parisians?!) and everything was mediocre.  That said, I recognize good food takes some hunting down.  In Italy, I felt like I didn't have to hunt too much, which I appreciated! [/quote]

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