Italy’s food culture is really hard to comment on. The good thing is that Italian really know how to appreciate and enjoy life, from the simple meals. They start drinking from the morning to the end of the day. Starting work in a late time with no one is on time for the schedule, and having hour works and having lunch until 2 in the afternoon. A working couple of hours then go to dinner for an enjoyable life. When they in the mood, they even head out for the club and bar at around the 12-1 at night. The bad thing is that these meals and leisure times took them so much in one day. Each of the meal could last more than two to three hours, the most insane was one day I headed back hotel around 0 am and everyone is still ordering for dinner at the outdoor tables right in front of the restaurant of Pantheon. 

The food is one of the most important in Italian culture. And wine, luxury stuff, and handmade tags, of course, are the others come later. Spaghetti can split into hundreds of types, where we call them pasta for all the time. We tasted different meats from medium rare T-bones to medium Fillet streaks. I would love to say that were the best steaks I ‘ve ever had in the lifetime and it was not that expensive at all. Of course, another thing is pizza. They would never have the pasta with a topping of Hawaii, instead of full of mozzarella and salami is the tradition of the Italian heritage. 

In the cooking class, we even made the “handmade spaghetti” which from the noodles to the meat. It was not a really appreciable process because the long time it took us two hours to make the meal. However, the results were not that bad since our cooking was not bad and everyone was starving of course. The materials were so fresh that we could not touch it in the U.S and I believe we appreciated the process of making the noodles from a roll the paste, cut it, wait for the fermentation, and roll them by hands to the shape of noodles.