"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>> What a way to live! <sigh>
>> Does one get jaded having such abundance of wonderful food easily
>> available to them, I wonder? Sure beats donuts and pop-tarts, eh?
>
> Perhaps, but we certainly ate well any time in Italy. It was not just the
> fancy restaurants, but the small local shops as well. Prepared food in a
> supermarket was also very good. I once read that the Italians spend a
> larger percentage of their income on food than any other country.

Here's my Italian breakfast sandwich today.
http://i24.tinypic.com/f5920k.jpg

and the mozz I used - the best I can do - not fresh from the cheesemaker's
hands, but DOP, click twice and you can read the container:
http://i22.tinypic.com/qn4b6b.jpg

The cheese is full of water -- I used a ball and a half for a pizza and the
water flowed all over the stone.
But it is OK for this sandwich, or alone.

Dee Dee