{"id":5600,"date":"2014-06-23T12:52:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T16:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2024-01-30T08:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T13:54:54","slug":"experiencing-the-food-and-culture-while-studying-abroad-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/experiencing-the-food-and-culture-while-studying-abroad-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiencing the food and culture while Studying Abroad in Italy! by Austin Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5601 alignright\" style=\"line-height: 24px\" alt=\"IMG_0266\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0266-161x300.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, we had our class at the nearby Pontifica University. Then we took a tour of the Roman Forum, \u201cOld Rome\u201d, and the Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p>For lunch that day I had something that is rare in Italy as they view it as something like a crime against food, ham and <b>pineapple <\/b>pizza. Italians don\u2019t have an issue with ham on pizza, just pineapples. For dinner I had a seafood salad consisting mostly of squid, shrimp, and something else that I couldn\u2019t really identify other than to say it was fish.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had Gelato at a few places in the US (I think at least one was owned by an Italian) and it doesn\u2019t even compare to the stuff they make here. The flavors I tried were Nutella, cr\u00e8me, and the store\u2019s signature flavor \u201cgelatone\u201d. I have no idea what was in the last one, but it was amazing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0269.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5602\" alt=\"IMG_0269\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0269-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5603\" alt=\"IMG_0277\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0277-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we had our class at the nearby Pontifica University. Then we took a tour of the Roman Forum, \u201cOld Rome\u201d, and the Coliseum. For lunch that day I had something that is rare in Italy as they view it as something like a crime against food, ham and pineapple pizza. Italians don\u2019t have an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/experiencing-the-food-and-culture-while-studying-abroad-in-italy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Experiencing the food and culture while Studying Abroad in Italy! by Austin Hart<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-5600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","category-italy-2021","tag-italy-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9313,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions\/9313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}