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katestine ([personal profile] katestine) wrote2006-11-08 08:36 am
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Humpday poll - The mother of all food polls

[Poll #863038]

If someone else in your household does the cooking, answer as they would answer regarding cooking appliances and ingredient acquisition.

Edit: Bleh. I left out ingredient boutiques and mail order on the ingredient acquisition question, bc clearly Penzey's deserves its own clickie.

Re: It's people like you who kept me from adding Alton Brown to the poll

[identity profile] devina.livejournal.com 2006-11-08 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
We didn't spend the -entire- two weeks having sex, or when would I have time to shop for fabulous hats?

Too touristy. I loved several paintings in the Uffizi, but overall I liked the Borghese museum a lot better. The people are ruder in Florence than in Rome, and the city feels a lot less intimate than either Rome or Milan.

Re: It's people like you who kept me from adding Alton Brown to the poll

(Anonymous) 2006-11-08 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I need pictures of hats.

really?? When I did Rome & Florence in the same trip, we hated Rome and loved Florence, which felt far less touristy than Rome. Part of it was that Florence felt cooler, I think, and the hotel room was larger. But yes, Borghese is much awesomer. (although it's not really a fair comparison - it's like comparing the Met to the Frick or the MFA to the Isabella Stewart Gardner - there's something about personal collections that's so very neat.)

Re: It's people like you who kept me from adding Alton Brown to the poll

[identity profile] devina.livejournal.com 2006-11-08 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
No pictures. Kite let me leave Milan without buying the very stylish one I tried on.

Part of it may be that we didn't do the super-touristy things in Rome. We went to Saint Peter's, but besides that, stuck to the small neighborhood where I lived. Florence doesn't seem to have much in the way of pretty little neighborhoods that aren't flooded with tourists, perhaps a function of just being a smaller city. Milan felt much the same was as Rome did.

I love Italy

(Anonymous) 2006-11-08 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Egads. That's why you should've taken me along - I would've snuck out and bought it for you when he wasn't looking.

Did you make it over to the altarno (sp?) at all? We got throroughly lost in a very residential neighborhood before happening on a trattoria where I had one of the best meals of my life: pecorino drizzled with honey and pine nuts, bistecca alla fiorentina, and some ridiculously tasty dessert I cannot recall.