Saturday, December 10, 2011

Eating in Italy the right way

This weekend I did a trip to Palermo Sicily. This is something I have been wanting to do the whole time I have been here. This post is going to be dedicated to the food I ate while in the trip, mostly because that was a huge reason I wanted to go. Thursday was a holiday, so no classes. I left nice and early in the morning, arriving in Napoli around noon. Napoli (Naples) is the birth place of pizza, so of course we had to have lunch there. Then we continued on to Palermo. Palermo is the home of cannolis, gelato, aranchini and many other things. I have found gelato that is fantastic so that I wasn't worried about finding. I am happy to announce that I found all of my food and they were all pretty darn good. So here are the pictures and a few more details about them.
This pizza right here was amazing. It was from a pizzeria with the nicest people in it. They didn't speak a lick of English ( always a good sign!). The oven was a wood burning bread oven that looked like it had been there since the place was build decades ago. The flavors were so good. Words can not explain this pizza. Other than the pizza though there is nothing in Napoli but garbage.
Once in Palermo, I was on the hunt for two things- arancini and cannoli. Arancini is a rice ball with either ham and cheese filling or ragu filling. The ones I found were the ham and cheese. It was incredible. The fact that they are deep fried probably helps.I had only one food left to find, and I was fearing that it would be the hardest. For the fact that cannolis come from Palermo, they were not sold in very many places. In the end I wandered into a bar and found mini cannolis worth trying. It was as good as any cannolo I have had, but not amazing. So that was probably the least favorite food of the weekend. Overall it was a great success of a last weekend in Italy.