Hit By A Food Truck List - Italy
Posted 4/4/2011
So, everyone
says they want to go eat pizza in Italy. I get it. I’m not original. But do you
know what is original? The punishment I would receive by my Italian family
members had I not listed Italy first on my HBAFT list.
I whole-heartedly believe I would have been taken down a dark alley by my father, had a bright light shown directly into my eyes by my Papa and beat senseless with a prosciutto ham hindquarter by my loving sister until I agreed that yes, of course, Italy would be first. Either that or I will be banished to polenta land, a Sisyphean-type torture armed only with a large wooden spoon and forced to stand over a hot, bubbling pot of cornmeal and stir, and stir, and stir, and stir, and stir.
I kid you not.
It would be a fate worse than death.
Whether original or not, everyone loves pizza and why not indulge yourself by eating pizza at either the arguable birthplace of the dish, Naples, a well-known and loved version of the dish in Sicily, or the most iconic place you can enjoy an Italian meal of melted cheese and roasty tomato on crispy crust, Rome.
With the coliseum in view, I assume. That’s the right way to do it in Rome, right? Pizza wasn’t built in a day, so they say. Actually, I think it took like several hundred years …
I whole-heartedly believe I would have been taken down a dark alley by my father, had a bright light shown directly into my eyes by my Papa and beat senseless with a prosciutto ham hindquarter by my loving sister until I agreed that yes, of course, Italy would be first. Either that or I will be banished to polenta land, a Sisyphean-type torture armed only with a large wooden spoon and forced to stand over a hot, bubbling pot of cornmeal and stir, and stir, and stir, and stir, and stir.
I kid you not.
It would be a fate worse than death.
Whether original or not, everyone loves pizza and why not indulge yourself by eating pizza at either the arguable birthplace of the dish, Naples, a well-known and loved version of the dish in Sicily, or the most iconic place you can enjoy an Italian meal of melted cheese and roasty tomato on crispy crust, Rome.
With the coliseum in view, I assume. That’s the right way to do it in Rome, right? Pizza wasn’t built in a day, so they say. Actually, I think it took like several hundred years …
Anyways, that
would definitely be the outline of my Italian pizza excursion. Naples to Sicily
to Roma. Probably not the most logical
route for traveling the historic Pizza Trail in Italy. (What? Boston has its
Freedom Trail, can’t Italy have its Pizza Trail?)
Sicily appears to be at least a day’s drive south of Naples so after visiting Da Michele, one of the oldest pizzerias in Naples, I guess I’d have to drive down the Italian coast and stop in Positano, Pompeii, and Amalfi along the way.
Sicily appears to be at least a day’s drive south of Naples so after visiting Da Michele, one of the oldest pizzerias in Naples, I guess I’d have to drive down the Italian coast and stop in Positano, Pompeii, and Amalfi along the way.
I’d manage somehow.
After indulging in no less than 4000g of pizza carbs in Sicily at Trattoria dei Templi, I’d traverse by boat up the Mediterranean Sea to the popular port of Civitavecchia, a short distance north of Rome, and round out the Pizza Trail, and my cholesterol levels, there at Bafetto. Although, from my research, it appears that this place makes some of the best pizza in all of Italy but comes with an attitude. I’ll plan to take it to go, I think.
Of course, I’d have to finish off each meal with a bit of gelato, too. Right?
Please, there is no way I could save gelato for its own trip around Italy, a Gelato Freedom Trail if you will. Have you seen the USD-EUR exchange rate lately, people? I’m going to have to sell my first born as it is to just get to Italy.
Does selling children for pizza make me a really really bad parent or a really really good foodie?
On 4/4/2011, Kristin wrote:
"a really really good foodie... Italy 2012!"
On 4/5/2011, Lauren @ L-Mo Cooks wrote,
"Oh, the gelato is worth its own trip. Mmmmm, straciatella!"
On 4/5/2011, Lindsay wrote,
"Definitely a really really good foodie. I fully support this decision and would be willing to accompany you on this journey."
"a really really good foodie... Italy 2012!"
On 4/5/2011, Lauren @ L-Mo Cooks wrote,
"Oh, the gelato is worth its own trip. Mmmmm, straciatella!"
On 4/5/2011, Lindsay wrote,
"Definitely a really really good foodie. I fully support this decision and would be willing to accompany you on this journey."
