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To: Poet who wrote (4813)	2/9/2003 2:10:25 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

I did mention the food experience in an earlier post: Oh, here's one thing I didn't mention. We didn't have much good food in Venice, being oafishly unable to distinguish between tourist traps and good food places. We had some good pasta once by accident, and did pass one highly-recommended (by guidebooks) osteria but were never able to find it again. It was in one of the darker parts of the beautiful maze that is Venice.... That won't happen next time. We'll approach the restaurant situation less casually, assuming less. The one lovely food experience was simple pasta in a little place (full of Italians, significantly) we happened to find ourselves in front of when we needed sustenance. N's Bolognese, a classic that clearly had cream in it (and was made with veal and pork in addition to the beef, I'm sure), made me determined not to do my red spaghetti sauces the easy way, which although delicious and less caloric, isn't the same sauce at all as the Bolognese it imitates. I had the simplest of mixed funghi sauces, and it was supreme. If it hadn't been late in the trip when we found it, we would have returned every day to that place. In a supermercado not far from us, we did buy supreme cheeses and lovely ham and apples and pears that reminded me of what those fruits are supposed to taste like. And all the coffee we got everyplace was wonderful. While all the bread we ate in Venice was bad to less bad. Other people have said the same thing. Venice is not Rome, where food is concerned. I meant to bring home some garlic, but left it until too late. Drat.