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Serious About Italian Food

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Celebration of Italian Cuisine Arriving in Italy with a mind to taste the sauce, the pasta and those meatballs, you are shocked that spaghetti and meatballs is not offered in almost any menus except a few tourist catered restaurants.  From then on you will either choose to eat a lot of pizza or venture into a new tasting adventure that will make good memories when you are back home.  What to try? Here are a few suggestions. Marinated Sardines The menus feature what Italians call "antipasti".  These will be choices of appetizers.  There will be cold cuts of choice meats, some cheeses,  specially prepared vegetables or fish delicacies.  I promise you that these sardines won't taste like the sardines that come from a can or jar. Bruschetta You might find bruschetta on the menu, be assured that they will use those tasty ripe tomatoes we hardly find anymore in big grocery stores.  They will have added extra virgin olive oil and some spices on toasted bread.  Y