FAIL.No, we didn't eat there.
We're back from our Italy vacation. News flash: Rome is in ruins. Florence remains my favorite city of those visited in Italy. Naples is still crazy. Gelato is absolutely necessary. The pictures are trickling in via Picasa (link on right).
It's weird to be back in a place where everything is 2500 years newer. I have to say I learned more on this trip than on any other, on every level (including how much I love my dog). I've spent time in Italy before, but I always held the culture (between A.D. 476 and the present) at arm's length. I don't know exactly how to go into this without getting deeply personal, but let's just say it's been a spiritual awakening.
I feel inspired. We'll see where this leads. Yesterday it led to strawberries macerated in amaretto and made into shortcake. A peanut butter noodle stew thing with cabbage, carrots, and sweet potatoes. Two hours-plus in the kitchen after weeks away? Heaven on Earth.
2 comments:
Yay, you are back! Oh, do tell what you ate, and what you make!
There is a lot of things I haven't done yet in the 'Burgh, including going to the All-Clad stainless steel cookware factory during their 1 day per year sale of 2nds. I gotta figure out when that is, and arrange another mini-vaca to do that. Also, Dave and Andy's Ice Cream, near Univ of Pittsburgh, is one of the top 10 Ice Cream Parlors in the USA (see USAToday article up at the parlor). I have gone to most of the the top 10 ice cream parlors listed in the article, one doesn't exist anymore in Boston, and I still have to go try Tom's Diner ice cream in Zanesville, OH. The museums, Carnegie and Heinz, the Botanical Garden, the people watching, the diverse neighborhoods, and coffee shops are really awesome IMHO. Enjoy your next trip to the 'Burgh!!
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