One of the best things about Italy is the food. The fresh produce is excellent and often the best meals are those where the food is served simply. In every city, town and tiny village you are likely to find great places to eat.
You won’t go hungry in Italy.
For us who are not in Italy, it so hurts to look at all this.
By: rommel on September 25, 2012
at 5:40 pm
Bwahahaha. I look back at the pictures to compliment your images. I virtually smelled your photos scrolling through it. URGH, painful cravings.
By: rommel on September 25, 2012
at 5:43 pm
You clearly need a trip to Italy soon.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 25, 2012
at 7:04 pm
Can you give my employer a call and him that? Hehehe 😀
By: rommel on September 25, 2012
at 7:44 pm
Great collection of prints!
By: kurt on September 25, 2012
at 6:31 pm
Thank you, and I enjoyed eating some of those meals as well.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 25, 2012
at 7:03 pm
Deb the pictures are just delicious . Where was that amazing flaky pastry served. Looks so good.
By: dianne Cant on September 25, 2012
at 6:58 pm
The sfogliatella was in Naples….and it was good.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 25, 2012
at 7:02 pm
Love the pics of the men in Casabasciana with what I think was wild boar?? and of Paolo’s fresh potato bread….these all all lovely Deb!
By: Melonie Carideo on September 25, 2012
at 7:17 pm
Yes it was wild boar in Casabasciana. I hope I get invited back there next year.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 25, 2012
at 7:18 pm
“Mangia, mangia que te fa bene”. It must be Italy’s motto. Delicious food! And your photos are superb…
By: mulino dominillo on September 25, 2012
at 8:03 pm
Italians know how to eat well.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 6:44 am
Enuf’ said!
By: Maryon Allen on September 25, 2012
at 8:06 pm
I hope the photos made you hungry.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 6:51 am
Yum! Glorious post! Especially like the deli shots, and the Tuscan kale! Wish we could grow it like that! 🙂
By: Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial on September 25, 2012
at 8:34 pm
That deli in Florence is amazing. I love cavolo nero. I pay $5 for a small bunch at home and 20cents for the same amount here.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 6:53 am
Fabulous pictures.
My Aussie friends have enjoyed meeting you Debra,
Pam Proctor
By: Anonymous on September 25, 2012
at 8:35 pm
We loved meeting them too and we are having dinner together tonight.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 6:55 am
YUM!!!
By: Where's Wiwi? on September 25, 2012
at 8:45 pm
Exactly.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 6:56 am
That looks good!
By: Rosi on September 25, 2012
at 9:07 pm
There is much to love about Italy.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 6:56 am
Oh, you make me hungry, Debra! Looks delicious. ALL OF IT!
Hugs,
Kathy
By: Kathryn McCullough on September 25, 2012
at 9:37 pm
We are certainly spoilt for choice here.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 6:56 am
This is all adding to my excitement,
I can already picture kim and I some
were near Piazza Navona or Campo de’
Fiore next Sunday having a delicious
lunch with a nice red.
Can’t wait.
By: Elsear on September 25, 2012
at 10:03 pm
Rome has some wonderful places to eat. Have a coffee at Tazza d’Oro for me.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 6:57 am
torture being away from the land of fabulous food.
By: christopher oconnor on September 25, 2012
at 10:57 pm
Where are you now?
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 6:58 am
uk. cold, wet, windy. i’m very lucky in that my wife is very good cook, but we cannot recreate the magic of italian food at home. as you know, so much is dependent on temp, quality of raw ingredients,musty old buildings and other environmental influences which can only be fully understood/appreciated in bella italia
By: christopher oconnor on September 27, 2012
at 1:29 pm
Today has turned cool and wet after a very hot steamy day yesterday.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 27, 2012
at 3:56 pm
There is nothing like fresh produce!!! Feel like plucking that lobster out and cooking it right away. Wonderful!
By: Minnie@thelady8home on September 26, 2012
at 12:10 am
The local markets in our village have beautiful produce, but what I am enjoying right now is picking ripe figs off the trees around the village and eating them immediately.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 7:01 am
I bet you had fun putting this together Debra!!!! A little unkind for those of us so far away but all the more incentive to get back. You know I dashed to the shops quickly this morning before I saw this post…. the awful food on offer….ahhh! The people scoffing bad food, unthinking, on the streets, drinking coffee from paper cups and rushing for no real reason…. All makes me appreciate having Italy in the background.
By: Janine on September 26, 2012
at 1:08 am
Italians expect to find good food when they shop….it is an attitude. If good food is expected it will be delivered.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 7:04 am
Thanks for the bountiful feast!
By: aFrankAngle on September 26, 2012
at 1:16 am
No problem, I have enjoyed collecting these photos.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 7:05 am
Stop… stop…. this is unfair! Your photos are too tempting…. I’m booking next year’s trip now! Buonissimo!!
By: jenny@atasteoftravel on September 26, 2012
at 1:22 am
I’ll book a table at my favourite restaurant in Lucca for us.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 7:07 am
I’ll be there!!
By: jenny@atasteoftravel on September 30, 2012
at 4:13 am
Simply delicious Debra.
By: cityhippyfarmgirl on September 26, 2012
at 3:44 am
There are other things to do in Italy besides eat, but food it right at the top of the list of great things about this country.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 7:08 am
I would not blame you if you never returned to oz
By: Roz on September 26, 2012
at 4:13 am
I come back for mangoes, Tasmanian ocean trout, delicious reef fish, pineapples, Asian food……we have great food in Australia, but it is expensive.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 7:09 am
Yes it is expensive here, I think food along with electricity charges and other operating overheads are out of step with average incomes compared to US & Europe. Cost of cars completely out of step too. My morning rave.
By: Roz on September 26, 2012
at 8:29 pm
I think owning a car in Italy is more expensive than Australia. Food is cheaper here, but gas and electricity are extremely expensive.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 8:50 pm
I agree with you that the best food is in Italy. It’s simple, tasty and fresh.
By: Jennifer Avventura on September 26, 2012
at 7:35 am
Just what food should be.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 1:27 pm
A feast for the eyes, Debra! I hope you look at your post in the WP Reader – the photos look like a collage of the most colorful beautiful images, seen all at once. I’m so “hungry” for Italy – we are starting to plan for a trip there, can’t wait!
By: composerinthegarden on September 26, 2012
at 10:23 am
All this lovely food is waiting for you.
By: Debra Kolkka on October 1, 2012
at 11:02 am
Goodness! I’m starving now.
By: Lu on September 26, 2012
at 11:26 am
You need a quick trip to Italy.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 1:28 pm
I bought a small plastic wrapped tray of tiny tomatoes today like those in your first photo – how I would love to see a generous mound such as that in my greengrocers. And I thought that must have been a sfoglia I spied too. There is such beauty in these pictures – oh to get my little chops in amongst it all.
By: Jan on September 26, 2012
at 11:38 am
I can still taste that sfoglia in Naples.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 1:29 pm
Oh dear! I made the mistake of reading this BEFORE I’d had breakfast!
Deb, your cookbook must **become**!!
By: lahgitana on September 26, 2012
at 1:57 pm
I think Italy has been well covered with books. I’m not sure I would have anything to add.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 8:47 pm
I’m speechless and now starving!
By: paninigirl on September 26, 2012
at 2:35 pm
I have just had an enormous feast with some delightful Australian ladies who are staying in your apartment in Lucca.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 26, 2012
at 8:47 pm
Oh dear Debra, what did you do in this post, I am almost lost! I miss Italy days… They all smell now, your photographs 🙂 so beautiful, so delicious… Thank you, love, nia
By: niasunset on September 27, 2012
at 7:43 am
The food here is delicious….I will never be thin
By: Debra Kolkka on September 27, 2012
at 3:54 pm
Ahh Italian tomatoes…they really are so delicious! 😀
By: Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella on September 27, 2012
at 12:54 pm
And the cavolo nero,peaches, pears, figs, pasta, etc, etc
By: Debra Kolkka on September 27, 2012
at 3:55 pm
oh how I miss the food in Italy…
By: Fragolina on September 27, 2012
at 1:28 pm
I do too when I go back to Autralia.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 27, 2012
at 3:55 pm
The Italians are artists with food, and you, Debra, are an artist with your camera!
By: Anonymous on September 27, 2012
at 5:02 pm
Thank you.
By: Debra Kolkka on September 27, 2012
at 5:06 pm
Reblogged this on unwillingexpat and commented:
This post made me hungry!
By: unwillingexpat on September 29, 2012
at 9:40 am
I love your exuberant photos – what a fantastic celebration of food! I must grow some cavalo nero next year, it always does well here, this year we are growing a new kale crossed with brussel sprouts (!) called flower sprouts. I love the photo of the man sniffing the bread too and all the courgette flowers – just beautiful Debra !
By: Joanna on September 30, 2012
at 8:44 am
Thank you. I do love cavolo Nero. I can’t get enough of it when I am in Italy. It is very expensive in Australia
By: Debra Kolkka on October 1, 2012
at 11:00 am
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at 12:32 am
These are awesome♥ When I graduate I’ll definitely go to Italy!
By: yeonac95 on November 1, 2012
at 10:11 am
Bellisimo…..I when to Sicilia and the Gelato e la Past was awesome. we go back every year, il piccolo paese Trappeto, bellisimo spiaggia… buon viaggio.
By: pina51 on November 3, 2012
at 11:58 pm
There is nothing to compare with Italian gelato.
By: Debra Kolkka on November 5, 2012
at 1:10 am