Eating Italy As a Brit: Stereotypes vs. Reality: How do touristic expectations of a country's food scene affect our experiences once we're actually there?
So by the time my partner and I arrived in Milan, we were definitely ready for lunch. We stopped at a little bistro that was full of Italians and reassuringly, reservation signs . I’d made a list of famous Milanese dishes we needed to try on our visit, including risotto allo zafferano, ossobuco and coletta alla Milanese. However, dazed from our early start, we ordered purely with our growling stomachs.
Our first proper eating adventure in Milan, however, turned out to be a bit of a disaster. After researching the best places to eat pizza in the city, we hopped on a tram to head to a restaurant in the popular Porta Venezia district. Europeans are known to eat later than the Brits and Americans, and it was a bit embarrassing to be going for dinner at 7:30 p.m., so to drag it out, we stopped at a bar to take advantage of the famous aperitivo hour.
After this is when things took a turn for the worse. A small caveat is that I have a nut allergy, which can make eating out, especially abroad with the potential language barrier, a tricky experience. Unfortunately, despite checking multiple times, it turned out that there had been a mistake, and a savory biscuit that contained almonds had been sprinkled on my pizza.
We discovered that the differences between the Northern Italian vs. Southern Italian cuisine are also quite marked: the North typically has richer, creamier dishes perhaps due to its colder winters than the Southern regions experience, where more frequently consumed is what we think of as the traditional “Mediterranean diet,” seafood, tomatoes, olive oils, vegetables. Despite our best efforts, I think we actually ended up eating more of a Southern diet on our trip.
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