Food. We need it to survive, and it usually helps when it tastes good. I don’t think that you understand how good the food here is. I don’t think I’ve had a bad meal at all on this trip. Some of my favorites have been the sweet stuff. So many different pastas have been consumed, one pizza was eaten with care, coffee has replaced the blood in my body and gelato has to be it’s own food group here.

My favorite pasta dish so far has to have been the Spaghetti Alle Verdure at the La Vittoria. I have to say that the spaghetti was not too over cooked, nor was it under cooked. The tomato sauce was not too salty, nor too bland and the vegetables were great. I think I have a new love for eggplant. It has been on most of the pastas and pizza I have consumed, while here. I paired it with a simple glass of water due to the fact that we were walking constantly before we had time to sit and enjoy our meal.

My favorite pizza so far has to be the white eggplant pizza that I picked up on the third day in Rome. The crust was amazing and fluffy. There was not too much grease and it was all just enough to fill me up and give me a good amount of energy to last me until dinner, which was set to take place five hours later. I paired it with an orange Fanta, which was so sour and so good. I was never really a super fan of American orange soda in the first place, but the Italian version has almost made me despise it. Why should I submit myself to non-orange orange soda, when I can have sourey fresh goodness.

Desert-wise I have been killing it. I had a cannoli at La Vittoria, which was to die for. The first bite is always the moment of truth, but the cream on the inside was amazing. It was sweet, but not overly so. It was more of a subtle sweet, which was complimented by the chocolate shell and the orange peel. I shared a little bit with the table and suddenly it was gone in a blaze of forks and happy teenagers.

Ciao!