Casarecce With Seafood ...
... I had no idea what casarecce was, and that's exactly why I tried it. The sauce was quite salty, and I wondered if it's because the casarecce is so dense and heavy - it's a bit like if you took a very thick spaghetti and twisted it into a screw shape. The seafood was pretty good, clams, mussels, and tiny little shrimps in a bit of a brown sauce. The casarecce was overwhelming, both in heaviness and quantity - we're learning that in the south, ordering an appetizer AND a plate of pasta each, is WAY too much food. Especially if you want to have a gelato after!
The Real Italy
July 15th 2012 Geo: 38.2537, 15.7152The plan - get out of Naples as soon as possible this morning, and head down to the beaches of Calabria, a region considered by Northern Italians to be a backwater, dangerous and ruled by the mafia. Of course, plans rarely work out, so we were stuck in Naples for several more hours than intended, as we showed up at the train station only to find all the seats on the two ear
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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more 
