Many of you would know about the Lega Nord, the crazy right wing political party in the North of Italy that wants to cut the peninsula in half to separate the north from the south. The reasons for this are based on economics and immigration from North Africa.
I however, after eating food from 4 regions - Piedmont, Liguria (actually Liguria was good), Valle D'Aosta and Lombardia - have come to the conclusion that I would like to create a culinary Lega Sud, where Italian food focuses on the regions of the South and separates itself from the North. The Northern cuisine, afterall, is focused on French cuisine, with far too much butter and not enough tomatoes or oil.
Down with meat wrapped in meat with meat sauce!
Down with 10oz of butter!
Down with a lack of vibrant colourful vegetables!
There I said it.
Daisy.
The divide is very interesting. I think what surprises me the most is that theregions we've so far done actually have very different terrains, so it's not like each of these regions has the same sort of geographical limitations on cuisine and harvest. We should discuss this more with the Italian Consul General, Benedetto Latteri
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