I think it depends quite a bit on the kinds of restaurants you eat in at home, Jeff. Anyone who eats in Olive Garden is most definitely not getting a true Italian experience, but if you seek out more genuine Italian restaurants outside Italy you might not find much of a difference when you actually go to Italy. But things like “fettuccini Alfredo” and “spaghetti with meatballs” are American inventions, and you won’t find them in any self-respecting Italian restaurant!

]]> http://www.italylogue.com/italian-news/italian-news-snippets-100707.html/comment-page-1#comment-10619 Jeff Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:11:58 +0000 http://www.italylogue.com/italian-news/italian-news-snippets-100707.html#comment-10619 Before I left for Italy, everyone told me that Italian food in Italy is nothing like what you see in Italy. Well, I might have been looking in the wrong places, but what I saw looked a heckuva lot like what I see in Italian restaurants and the Italian section of the grocery store here in the US. I think the differences are overstated by people who want to see a major difference, when the differences are really rather minor.

Before I left for Italy, everyone told me that Italian food in Italy is nothing like what you see in Italy. Well, I might have been looking in the wrong places, but what I saw looked a heckuva lot like what I see in Italian restaurants and the Italian section of the grocery store here in the US. I think the differences are overstated by people who want to see a major difference, when the differences are really rather minor.

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