Italy - A trip to a typical one-room grocery shop
Italy has supermarkets, but home refrigerators are tiny, because it's more typical to buy only that day's ingredients at the ...
butcher - macellaio
bakery - forno
produce shop - fruttivendolo
small grocery - alimentari
These small grocery shops are all over Italy, and usually a single room, like my favorite..
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This is the entire shop ...
... but it's packed! A big counter, 3 clerks, and delicious
things stacked floor to ceiling
It isn't self-service - you tell them what you want, and they
collect it for you. (See the prosciutto hanging?)
If you order sausage like I did, they wrap them
Fresh soft pasta made that morning, including the
local specialty in front, tortelli
The produce section, brought in each day. All local.
Fresh breads of every kind
Dried pasta
Sausages and meats of every kind, most produced within
50 kilometers of the shop
Limoncello, basalmic vinegar
For the top shelf, they bring a ladder
Homemade ragu, pesto, veal 'tonnato', olives
Frutti di mare (fruit of the sea), anchovies soaking in green
onions and olive oil
A two-feet high jar of dried porcini mushrooms from the
surrounding hills, sold by weight
Baccala (dried salt cod), used to make a local specialty
Fresh torts, a sack of coffee
Italian cheeses
Shelves and shelves of wine - very reasonable priced
Jars of black and white truffles (17euros), and also honey with truffles, which you eat on pecorino cheese (warning: this causes uncontrollable moaning)
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