Victor wrote about a food trip to Italy:

> if you mean staying in the country (such as the most wonderful Chianti
> region), considering the logistics of staying at such a place, there would
> be really not much time for cooking at all. When I was in Venice a few
> years ago, which was not even my first time there, and with Venice being a
> relatively small place with most everything accessible by just walking
> there, I think we cooked something just twice in a week we were there -
> and it was not even anything specifically Venetian. Who wants to stay
> inside, even if it is a flat/apartment in a particularly charming
> 16th-century Venetian palazzetto, as in our case (I always prefer to stay
> at a serviced flat rather than at an hotel, in part to be able to cook if
> I want to - and I did the same thing the last time I was in Rome, too)?
> It is not much different anywhere else in Italy where it is worth staying.

As I read what you wrote there, I was thinking about Milan. Seeing the great
food markets in Milan, wouldn't many people in this forum be inspired to
shop there and cook afterward?

Bob