If you’re Italian and travel abroad, when you come home NEVER tell anybody you visited an Italian restaurant. Noooo, Italian restaurants abroad have not Italian cooking and chefs, you’ll be served dishes that are not part of our tradition, God knows where they buy pasta and Parmigiano, and so on. If you felt in an Italian restaurant, it means you didn’t resist the temptation of your traditional cooking, you’re a weak man, you want to find home abroad, in one word you’re not an expert  traveler.

In a restricted circle of friends, it is possible to admit to have tried pizza abroad and, only to people who really love you, you can tell  that you even liked it.

Only if you love us, you’ll be told that pizza with meat, served by some … Colombian? Ecuadorian? … in NY (Broadway/103^rd Street) was great.