So How's The Weather?

I will take snow over torrential downpoursa & flooding anyday.

What do they call Italian food in Italy?

not me. I will take snow over downpours twice a year, three if I don't have something I need to be doing.

of course, it must be considered that that degree of flooding is NORMAL for that river at least once a winter. Its why the houses are on stilts.

This is our Somerset Levels....... been like that for weeks, more rain forecast.

I wonder if Italians think of McNopes as "American cuisine" in the same way that the Americans think of Olive Garden as "Italian cuisine"...

the ones we get concerned about look something like this:

or more snacks and beer.

Statistically speaking, a majority of Americans appear to consider McNopes definitive fast food. - they ARE the biggest single seller of it, after all.

most upscale dining establishments in the US pattern themselves after one or another foreign models; frequently French. I am not entirely sure that America HAS such thing as upscale cuisine that is entirely its own. our national character does not seem to match the concept. Considering the definitive American dinner consists primarily of a large chunk of dead cow, which may or may not still be bleeding; I find myself at peace with that. I certainly favor simple foods over the more elaborate (and strong flavored) options.

I prefer mine heated through, personally. and my bread San Fransisco Sourdough. But I do like some vegetables to go with it. I was startled to find that though I consider myself a carnivore, I eat more vegetation than some "vegetarians" I have crossed paths with.