Garlic: We've been in Italy for two weeks now; we've eaten a variety of meals in a variety of cities & towns north and south, and it recently occurred to us that we have yet to even smell garlic anywhere, let alone taste it. Is this unusual? Has there been some kind of moratorium placed on its use? Is garlic just an "immigrant" thing?
Gelato: I've had some gelato here too, of course, and I'm still not sure what supposedly makes it different than ice cream. Sure, the flavors are more clever (Pineapple, Nutella, Tiramisu etc), but it all seems to taste pretty much like...well...ice cream.
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Well, Keith the difference between gelato and ice cream can best be summed up by natural food expert... and you even went to her home for dinner....Denise Garbinski. I think the direct quote would be it's the "creamy mouth feel". Yup. That is the difference between gelato and ice cream.
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lk
realizations from the garlic observation: the heavy wave of Italian immigration reflected some economic stress in the south of the country, possibly a drought, because the the
Italians I saw in NY and anywhere else spoke and conducted themselves with either Sicilian or Neapolitan flavor. None had the influence of higher education. That's why we think all Italians cook that way. So you two have been sampling a broader spectrum than what we came to think of as typical Italian. dad
Yes, Lydia-I think it is the "creamy mouth feel" as that of high-quality soy milk products indeed!
-j
Ummm, actually there are a number of differences between Ice Cream and Gelato, Gelato typically has a much lowewer milk fat content - 5-8% as compared to a minimum 10% for "ICE CREAM", also its stabilized with eggs, whereas ice cream isn't, also, there is generally far less air in gleato than ice cream and typically its hand made on the spot.
Give it another few months and you should be able to tell the difference between Bryers and the real stuff...
What a sweet investigation it will be.... ummm... I mean dolche...
How could it take 2 days to get to Asissi from Orvietto, I did it in like 2 hour by car.... Oh that's right they killed Mussolini...
MS
Since the post, I’ve had some good gelato in Florence, and on the Venice Lido... maybe I got lucky, or maybe it's just better here in the north. I'll grant you it's better than Dreyers, but I think if you're used to, say, Haagen-Dazs, the differences are negligible. (Is Haagen-Dazs technically gelato?)
Orvieto and Assisi are fairly close, but there’s no direct train route; we had to transfer lines. It took us about 4 to 5 hours, I think...
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