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Thursday, September 12. 2013

Northern Italy, 2013, #2: Breakfast time on Lake Garda


 Set up for breakfast at our B&B overlooking Lake Garda last week.




What's for breakfast? (At 9 am, when most Americans have been working for a couple of hours)


See below, and note the cheese on the far left end of the table. It's 12-month Parmesan, still soft enough to eat with a knife and fork. Never had 12-month Parmesan before. Great stuff, maybe my favorite cheese right now. (Parmesan for grating is aged 18-36 months.)  



Here's my selection. I shoulda had a fig too:




They always serve a cake after



Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, Travelogues and Travel Ideas at 04:37 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I feel terribly deprived at this point.
#1 pbird on 2013-09-12 12:39 (Reply)
That's living...
#2 Dan D on 2013-09-12 14:32 (Reply)
I lived in Europe in the 60's and always loved their continental breakfasts. typically a roll or crescent, an egg usually soft boiled, cheese, meat sometimes sausage or bacon and butter with a cup of coffee. The other day I stopped by McDonalds to get my youngest a couple of suasage egg mcmuffins (well I got one too) and it dawned on me that this was America's continental breakfast; roll, egg, cheese, sausage or bacon and butter with a cup of coffee.
#3 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-09-13 00:57 (Reply)

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