Travelling in Italy seems to involve a big focus on food, doesn't it?

Especially pasta and pizza.

But what if you have allergies or following a diet or protocol that you think may mean you're going to miss out on a lot of this experience?

Let's find out how we can manage our dietary requirements and preferences in episode 258 of the Untold Italy podcast.

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

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

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.

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

the right place.

Bonjourno. Hello, friends. Hope 2025 has started off off well and if you're travelling this year,

you have your plans well underway. I've just returned from Italy, Rome and the Dolomites,

and it was, as always, glorious. I will give a detailed update on that trip on next week's

episode, but today I wanted to address a topic that comes up regularly, and that's how to manage food

allergies and requirements while you're travelling in Italy. I invited my friend Nazim from

Full Belly tours in Rome to help with this discussion. Zazim is a former chef, an ongoing

food lover, and what he doesn't know about eating in Italy is frankly not worth knowing.

For those of you lucky enough to have joined one of Nazim's tours, you'll know he has

enormous amounts of passion for helping people enjoy their time eating in Italy.

And as he hosts many guests on his tours with allergies, I thought it would be great to have

him share his knowledge on the show

on this episode and another episode coming up that we recorded in late 2024.

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