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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/cooking-rome" class="u-url" title="Cooking in Rome">Cooking in Rome</a></h1>
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<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-14T17:18:00">June <span>14, 2011</span></time>
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<span class="p-region">Rome</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a>
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In the end Italy and I didn't really get along, but the food redeemed it for me. The restaurants are good, but if you really want to experience the glory of Italian food you need to head to the market, grab some utterly amazing raw ingredients and whip up something yourself. This is what food is supposed to be, simple, fresh and great.
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<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-10T20:54:00">June <span>10, 2011</span></time>
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<span class="p-region">Firenze (Florence)</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a>
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There's no way around it; Florence is crowded. It may well be that Naples is the only Italian city that isn't overrun with tourists in the summer, but after three days of hardly seeing another traveler, I wasn't prepared for the crowds. Luckily it isn't hard to avoid the tourist hordes, just get up early and then when everyone else is starting to stir, head for obscure museums like La Specola, part of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze.
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/forever-today" class="u-url" title="Forever Today">Forever Today</a></h1>
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<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-07T17:50:00">June <span>7, 2011</span></time>
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<span class="p-region">Pompeii</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a>
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Pompeii feels both very old and not that different from the modern cities that surround it now. The gap between then and now feels small because when you wander around places like Pompeii you realize that human beings have changed very little over vast expanses of time. Pompeii had the same elements of cities today, a central square, markets, temples, government offices, even fast food. Not much has changed over the years, though togas aren’t much in vogue these days.
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<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-06T08:17:00">June <span>6, 2011</span></time>
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<span class="p-region">Napoli (Naples)</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a>
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Naples Italy is a big, crowded, graffiti-filled city. It's an intimidating place that is by turns a bit like Philadelphia, a bit Mumbai, a bit some post-apocalyptic video game and, in the end, something else entirely. Still, given the tourist epidemic that sweeps Italy every summer, Naples is a place worth appreciating for what it is not, even if what is isn't, perhaps, enough to ever bring you back.
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