Mangia

After keeping track of what we ate for the first couple of days, we kept eating so well (and so much) that we completely lost track. A proper meal in Italy seems to consist of a starter, a first course (typically pasta or soup), and a second course (typically meat). When you combine that with copious amounts of wine, coffee, gelato, etc., we both realised our clothes were getting tight after a couple of days and tried to scale back to just a starter and one other course. I'm not sure how much it helped--our clothes still seem to be a bit tight (Gretchen thinks maybe it's the fault of the clothes dryer, which sounds perfectly reasonable to me). This is a food stall in Parma, fruit in Siena, Gretchen eating lunch in Montepulciano, and me with a wild boar.