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Italian Four Food Groups


We have been in Italy for five days now and my diet has not had a lot of variety in it. Basically, it’s been pizza


pasta


spaghetti


and gelato.


My Italian Four Food Groups. I can’t get enough of these four foods right now. I’m sure I will be expanding my horizons eventually but I’m in no hurry, at this point. It started in Milano when Bruce brought back a pizza after we first got to our hotel at 10:00pm.


After a day of traveling from Copenhagen to Milano, I just wanted to take a shower and go to bed but to my surprise, that pizza was incredible. Oh my! And that was just the beginning. The pizza here is not filling because the crust is very thin with not a lot of stuff piled on. It seems even less filling than a sandwich so for lunch we’ve been ordering a pizza everyday and splitting it.


This seems to be working just fine for us since our dinners have been more on the heavier side with either pasta or spaghetti.


Then comes dessert and that would be gelato. Our favorite has been in Varenna, on beautiful Lake Como.





Our favorite gelato was at Gelateria Riva and the gelato was made fresh daily.
Even their signage was the best. 





We went back here each day that we were in Varenna because 1) we loved the gelato and the weather was hot while we were there and 2) we loved the walk to get there, along a romantic lakeside promenade or passerella. 




You simply cannot get enough of the view here and even Europeans come here to vacation.


Need I say more?





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  1. UnknownSeptember 17, 2016 at 6:23 PM

    Where's the Espresso!?
    Congratulations, you're never going to order pizza in America ever again.

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  2. Sylvia, RDNSeptember 18, 2016 at 8:15 AM

    Espresso isn't part of the Four Food Groups because it's liquid...:) Or I could make it The Five Food Groups. The pizza here is similar to wood fired pizza in the U.S., but only similar.

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