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Yes, I lived in Italy for a number of years, and a lot of the food is not particularly complex or fancy, but starts from very high quality ingredients. Often i
by davidw 3y ago
Yes, I lived in Italy for a number of years, and a lot of the food is not particularly complex or fancy, but starts from very high quality ingredients.
Often in supermarkets, produce doesn't look perfect, but tastes great, because they optimize for taste rather than being something you can transport from LA to Minnesota in the middle of winter in a truck and still look good.
- School-Cotton 3y agoIt's not just quality of ingredients (though that is part of it); it's also culture. Southern Europeans (understood in a broad sense to include the French) are less likely to tolerate regularly eating highly processed food, takeout, fast food, etc. and much more likely to cook at home from scratch than Americans are. Of course, the distributions overlap; there are Americans who eat like the stereotypical French person, and vice versa.