This was some orange chicken with rice and a beer. I found the orange chicken very orangy it was crazy but I was able to taste the orange. I have been used to the American sugary artificial tasting orange chicken. The peppers used to give it flavor were very tasty and full of substance. The rice was nothing special just plain jane rice.

This was a Kabop it was my first one and it was alright. I am inclined to not like these Kabop thing because the meat on the spike thing is not very appealing but I must say when your hungry you'll eat a lot of things. I liked the sauce that they used and the tomato was very rich in texture and flavor. I got to say, I really don't want to know what kind of meat was used/or where it came from.

This was my first spaghetti meal and it was an experience in and of itself. I loved how much I could taste the tomatoes, It was amazing. The wine was really good and I think it complimented my meal very well. Then I walked out of the restaurant with it. As an American I was tripping out hardcore because that's illegal but over here its okay. I felt so wierd to be walking around with a bottle of wine. I felt like people saw me and thought I was a drunk or something. It was actually kind of uncomfortable and that's when I realized how much our society shapes us as a person. The spaghetti was good overall my favorite part was the tomato sauce.

This was my first pizza. It was sausage and mozzarella. The concept of supreme over here is completely foreign. They are very basic and simple with at most 3 ingredients. I have seen some weird combinations, but they pretty much all have mozzarella and its sooo tasty. I am slowly but surely getting convinced that the food over here really is better. At first I thought it was because I was hungry but now that I am not hungry it does have a rich taste. I enjoy eating meat because it fills me up for a while. I think its because there are no preservatives or chemicals that compromise the integrity of the meat. I didn't like the fact that this pizza was so thick. I was looking for the thin kind of pizza.

This was my sandwich or "panini" it had tomatoes, pecorino cheese, lettuce, and prociutto. It was very plain and I would have liked for it to have more juice. Perhaps some olive oil and balsamic vinegar. It was very fresh and fulfilling though, not to mention healthy. I can tell that the bread is not salted but it filled me up for a long time I remember thinking to myself "For just a sandwich I got pretty full."

I had this absolutely amazing meal at the Castello Verrazzano. It was penne pasta with tomato sauce and basil with parmesan cheese sprinkled on top. I had like two plates it was so good. It had a good balance not too salty or dry. I felt like it was buttery and just overall really good. The wine that they paired it up with made the meal really savory. I never understood how wine could make your meal better but now I experienced it for myself.

This was officially the best pizza I have had yet. It was in Pisa and it was at a "Local's" pizzeria place. It was really something special and it was cheap compared to all the other tourist pizza place joints that I have seen. We got half ham and the other half sausage. It was very thin and cooked in a mesquite oven and it had a woody flavor that was really amazing. It tasted really really good the cheese just bursted with flavor.

I had this meal in Fiesole when I went on a bike tour through the countryside and these antipasti tasted so fresh and good that it was ridiculously good. I especially enjoyed the tomato bruchetta, but the carne bruchetta was good too. The Chianti wine was not too bad. The other bruchetta was made of veggies and spices. It was good but nothing special.



Okay so I had some awesome gnochi with the wide pasta. The gnochi was really good and buttery and creamy. I liked the pasta it was made with egg, I could just tell it had a great taste to it. I am convinced that the wine allows my taste buds to taste the flavor there is no other explanation to this phenomenon. The pasta had veggie tomato sauce and the gnochi was made with pesto.

This was a pork dish with a white sauce I had in Rome. Honestly I don't know what the white sauce was but it was good. It was wrapped around pasta and it was really soft and creamy. The red stuff was some kind of tomato sauce that gave it a twist in flavor.

Then this was the main dish and it was a simple pork steak with potatoes and rosemary. I remember that the pork was not all that great but complimented with the salty potatoes it made for a great combination. I had some red wine which was not the correct wine but I still drank it. Overall it was not that great of a meal though. I like the fruit dessert better.

This was our imperfect pasta that we made at an Italina cooking class I took. I found it to be plain. The tomato sauce was too diluted and watery but the real treat was the tortellini we made by hand. I thought it was great. The meat was soft and the pasta sauce was a little thicker. I liked the tortellini best because I felt like there was more substance to it while this "imperfect pasta" was too plain.

This was a Wurstol from when I went to Munich. It was really good I liked the sauce because it was tangy and somewhat sweet. It was accompanied by a piece of bread that was salted and brought balance to the sweet and tangy sausage. The yellow stuff on top gave each bite a bit of a dryness to it that was very nice.

So this was the only picture I had that had this really cool dish. It was coconut rice topped with all these veggies and 4 slices of lime. It was so good because I have never had coconut rice and it was so good and creamy. I had such an explosion of flavors and I didn't have wine with this. It was a vegitarian meal that the German girl on the far left cooked for me in Munich. It was simple yet fulfilling because it had veggies.

So this was my first "junk food" that tasted like a restaurant burger for me. I saw the meat and fries get cooked before my eyes and the fries were kind of sweet. The burger was simple and plain but savory. The juices just flowed through. Oh the bread was ciabatta and very salty. I liked it a lot because I could taste the different parts of the burger and then they combined in my mouth mmmm good!!