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Untold Italy travel podcast

211. Eating in Italy: Etiquette Tips to Make the Most of Your Trip

Untold Italy travel podcast

Katy Clarke

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Leisure

4.6659 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Italians are very particular when it comes to food and eating. Manners and ways of doing things are part of the fabric of life. In this episode, our local Roman food expert Nesim joins us to share the dos and don'ts of eating in Italy. Please.. do not touch the produce at the market!

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0:00.0

This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you're listening to episode number 211.

0:12.0

Ciao at all, and benvenuti to Untold Italy, the travel podcast where you go to the towns

0:18.3

and villages, mountains and lakes, hills and coastlines of Bella Italia.

0:23.8

Each week your host, Katie Clark, takes you on a journey in search of magical landscapes, history, culture, wine, gelato, and of course, a whole lot of pasta.

0:35.5

If you're dreaming of Italy and planning future adventures there,

0:39.2

you've come to the right place.

0:50.6

Ciao, hi friends, hope you're well. I'm just about to head off to Italy again where I'll visit

0:56.8

Rome and Venice and attend a travel conference, not in Italy this time, but in Berlin, Germany.

1:02.8

I've been checking the weather a lot and it's going to be pretty chilly, but I don't mind.

1:07.8

That's perfect pasta eating weather and I love getting out my winter coat and

1:11.8

feeling cozy. One person I'm planning to catch up with when I'm there is our guest today.

1:17.4

Back with us on the show is my friend, former chef and Roman food expert, Nassim Bacalty,

1:22.7

who runs full belly food tours in Rome, of course.

1:26.6

Nazim is a very popular guest on the podcast, thanks to our earlier episodes on

1:31.1

Roman pasta, finding the best restaurants to eat in the Eternal City.

1:35.7

So if you haven't listened to those yet, just go ahead and do that because they're a lot of fun.

1:40.7

Today, he's going to share his best tips for navigating food etiquette, something that most

1:45.5

Italians are very passionate about.

1:48.4

If you want a good laugh, sign up to the Italians Mad at Food Group on Facebook and you'll

1:53.8

see what I mean.

1:55.1

Anyway, no one wants to be on the receiving end of a mad Italian angry at your food etiquette,

1:59.9

so by the end of this episode,

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