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Saturday, March 3. 2012

Isola Pescatore

The main drag on the isola is an alley (pic from a couple of years ago). Our advice in Italty: Never eat the pizza. Terrible stuff. Sit down someplace and grab a gelato and a tiny coffee instead. Hazelnut gelato is my favorite.



 

Posted by Bird Dog in Travelogues and Travel Ideas at 05:01 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Only eat the pizza if you can get it freshly made - most of the pizza places cook the stuff first thing in the morning and it sits in the display all day until you order and then the slice is reheated.

And where you are in the country (north, south, sicily, sardenga) makes a huge difference in the quality of some foods - some "Italian" foods are better in certain reagions than others.

For whatever reason most of the pre-made food (pizza, sandwiches) is worse in Europe than the equivalent here.
#1 Agammamon on 2012-03-03 14:48 (Reply)
Never eat the pizza in Italy? crazy advice.
What you should have said is never buy pizza by the slice. Sit down in a trattoria and order a personal pie. heaven.
#2 peter on 2012-03-04 08:24 (Reply)
I lived in Milan for 6 months. Every pizza I ever had there (always freshly baked in a brick oven) was way better than any pizza I have had here at home. Yes, I know, we invented it and we can do a pretty good job, but those pizzas in Milano were the best.
#3 eb knott on 2012-03-05 22:33 (Reply)

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