Bob Terwilliger > wrote:

> 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?

There is not really all that much to see in Milan (well, it is not one
of my favourite cities...). There, I would cook!

Victor