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katestine[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.
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.
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It's people like you who kept me from adding Alton Brown to the poll
Date: 2006-11-08 02:13 pm (UTC)Speaking of which, why didn't you like Florence?
Re: It's people like you who kept me from adding Alton Brown to the poll
Date: 2006-11-08 02:51 pm (UTC)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
Date: 2006-11-08 04:00 pm (UTC)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
Date: 2006-11-08 05:52 pm (UTC)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
Date: 2006-11-08 06:50 pm (UTC)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.