The Italians aren’t really ones for the tapas approach. I’ve often felt rather miserly when, in a market, I might be purchasing a single melon or a solitary bag of spinach. All around me are women (as they invariably are, Italian men don’t really shop, though they do ‘advise’) buying 10kg of oranges, or 5 pineapples, or their own body weight in tomatoes. [...]
Archive for November 17th, 2009
No Half Measures
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