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Dirk's avatar

an old trick I have learned on my travels was to ask some gal or guy at the hotel where I was staying where to locals would eat. And never eat in your hotel ;-)

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John Birmingham's avatar

I found the best chicken pho in Hanoi this way.

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ivalley's avatar

Boy I wish I would have had a Mr. Go handy when I was in Rome. Long story short, I had one of the worst pizzas of my life there.

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John Birmingham's avatar

I do not doubt it.

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ivalley's avatar

It was a shocker for me at the time, because around here Italian places are synonymous with good food. Pisa, however, was much better. The Leaning Tower was the least of it. But that's personal pref.

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Kristophr's avatar

The pizza that caught on in New York after WW2, and later the world, was actually Sicilian pizza.

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Andrew Reilly's avatar

I remember having excellent pizza in Trastevere. Maybe lucky? Was the place in the block behind the apartment we were renting. Oh, how I'd love to go back! Wonderful place. Did you make it to the local markets? There's a guy there who specializes in tomatoes. Whole shop that only sells tomatoes. Wouldn't sell us any until we told him what we were going to use them for. Worth it.

Pizza is essentially the perfection of the ham cheese and tomato sandwich, already the perfect sandwich, open and toasted. Some variation in "ham" allowed for art's sake.

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Uncle Murray's avatar

Whatever happened to the hot chip vending machines that were promised a while back?

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John Birmingham's avatar

This is an excellent point

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Michael Barnes's avatar

as principles of cooking (or indeed life) focus and do only one or two things well seems to be a reasonable philosophy.

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John Birmingham's avatar

I'm increasingly rabid on this topic.

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