Italy

Literally everything was so good, you're going to be blown away. It's so good. I think my favorite was this lasagna type thing, but instead of noodles, you use like fried eggplant slices. And so you still have like a red sauce and like cheese, and it's so good. And the pizza, of course, is amazing. Had gelato almost every day. It's so good. Anything you get is good.

Favorite foods. Here's the thing, Italy is famous for food and my favorite foods were kebab, get that, definitely try that. It's kind of sketchy but get it. Pizza obviously, lasagna, the pasta's galore. There's this great place in Milan, Luini's has great panzerotto. My tip with food is just try everything, try everything you possibly can. The risotto, even if it's something you don't normally like, give it a shot anyway because it's honestly, it's so good. And just to say you've tried it, if you try it and you don't like it, you never have to do it again. But there's just so much good there and people are more than willing to help you learn how to cook it too. I would always ask them, okay, how do you make this? How do you make this? And I'd write it down and they're more than happy to share that with you. But yeah, the food is just, it's so good and so fresh and just mozzarella is just beautiful.

I'm pretty sure when I was in Italy, I ate gelato every single day. And I'm not kidding when I say I thought the gelato was better than the pasta and the pizza. So honestly, if you want to eat gelato for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I don't think it would be a bad thing.

In no particular order, but absolute must-haves. Pandoro, smothered in Nutella. Panettone, smothered in Nutella. Any carbohydrate, smothered in Nutella. And then my favorite cheese, it's called a burrata. It's like a really, really, really creamy version of mozzarella. Like, imagine mozzarella, but way, way better. You just take that, you slap it on a little crispy cracker, a little bit of salt, tomato on top. Best snack you could have. And then my favorite pasta is called a la matriciana. A really, really good sauce from the Roman area, I believe. But it might leak up north a little bit, if you're lucky.

So I've literally been home for a couple years now and I'm still like super obsessed with all the food that I had there. There's all the basics that you could be thinking of like pizza, which fun fact, a whole pizza is just for you. So you get used to that pretty quickly. I still love American pizza but Italian pizza is something else. Pasta, obviously, but there's a lot of different kinds like carbonara is one of my favorites. There's lots of different kinds of like lasagna and things like that. Always ask for the recipe and let them teach you. You'll be glad you did. This isn't really an Italian food but you'll find it all over in Italy. Kebab, very good. Honestly, majority of the food I had there was amazing whether it was like fast food or in someone's house so be excited.

So you really can't go wrong with food in Italy, honestly. However, some of my top favorites, ice cream gelato from Joliti in Rome, if you can find it. It's near the Pantheon. I like their cookies, their breakfast cookies. They're super good. I'd eat those every morning. Obviously the pizza, it's not great everywhere, but if you do get a chance, it's called Pellone's Annopoli. It's near the train station and it's about five euros. They get ready in 90 seconds and it's the best thing you'll ever have. That will be the food I eat before I die. Let's see, pasta every day. I mean, you can't go wrong with pasta. You can make it taste however you want and you can put whatever you want in it and it's really good, very versatile meal. So can't go wrong.

The best combination of food I ever came across that you will never find anywhere else is gnocchi, which is like those potato sort of spherical pasta. So gnocchi and pesto are a match made in heaven. They're just so good. That and uh and in Cretone, which is like way down south, it's kind of in the toe of the boot. There are these uh sort of cream filled donut things called grafe and it is the best.

My favorite fruits from Italy are the pizza, pasta del mar, which is pasta with seafood in it, and olive oil and all that stuff, and buffalo mozzarella, which is known as buffalo mozzarella. It is so good, especially in a caprese salad. Sliced up tomatoes, oh and their sandwiches are great too, like the paninis.

Favorite foods are obviously the pasta. If you can find a grandma to make you pasta, you're gonna die and go to heaven. It's some of the best stuff in the world. Arancini, another one of my top 10. Loved them.

Pizza amazing. Always try to go for a place that claims to be Napoletana because they make the best pizza. My favorite part about Italy is they can make anything good. I hate tuna. I think tuna is like the most disgusting food ever, but there's this pasta dish and I'm pretty sure it's called al pugliese. I think that's what it's called. I don't remember. It's been so long, but it's made with fresh pasta. It's just tomato sauce, tuna, olives, and capers. I hate all of those things. All those things are gross, but when they put them together in just the perfect Italian way, it was my favorite thing to eat. It's so delicious. It's all so good. Try it all.

Guys, this is not pizza, all right? Let me tell you what pizza is. Pizza was born in Napoli, and it is fantastic. Imagine the dough rolled out, they pour the tomato sauce on there, buffalo mozzarella, pour a pitcher of oil on there, throw on a basil leaf, throw it in the wood oven, and it is just amazing. And when you come home, you're going to be searching for places. There are places certified by the Vera Pizza Napoletana Association that use the flour that's imported, they use the buffalo mozzarella, they use the tomatoes that are imported, and the wood oven, and lots of them even have pizzaiolos from Napoli, the pizza cooks, as well. You'll search out those places like I do, and pizza will never be the same. You'll love it.

So I'm biased, I think Italy has the best food, but obviously there's the classic pizza and pasta, but I think one that is kind of lesser-known, it's called supli and it's a Roman street food and I think it is the best. So if you go to Rome, try supli. It's basically like rice mixed with like marinara sauce and then in the middle there's a mozzarella ball and then it's deep-fried and it is just, it's pure goodness, so give that a try when you go.

There is no food that I had that I did not like. I would have to say my favorite would probably be lasagna bolognese. It's just your standard run-of-the-mill lasagna, and the sauce is meat, carrots, onions, and celery. And it's so, so, so, so good. I could eat that stuff every meal of every day for the rest of my life and be just fine. Also, if you get the chance, if you make it to Florence, there's a Bistecca Fiorentina, which is crazy expensive, but it's so, so, so, so good. I highly recommend it. Also, anything with pesto and Genovese on it, it is so, so good. There's also stuff called arancini, which are basically fried rice balls. They make those in the south, but if there's enough of the southerners that live up in the north, you can probably find those, no problem.

One of my favorite foods that I ate in Italy is cacio e pepe. It's like this butter, pepper pasta. It's so yummy and it's really easy to make. Those fettuccine noodles, all you need is just like eggs and flour basically and it's super easy, super yummy.