Oh, and the food. At the recommendation of Alessandra we went to Osteria Giulietta e Romeo (Corso S. Anastasia, 27, Verona; 045 8009177) for lunch. This place was fantastic - I literally wanted to order everything on the menu. The way it worked was you got a primi and a secondi for a very reasonable set price. Alessandra told us that we had to order the pasta with donkey sauce (I know, poor Eeyore). It sounds strange, but this pasta was absolutely delectable - every bite. The donkey meat is actually very mild, and the pasta was hand made and very fresh, with a nice chewy bite. I have to go back to Verona just to have this again.
As a secondi, I had eggplant with tomato and mozzarella. I know this looks like a very Italian-American dish, but it was better than anything I've had like this in the U.S. For one, the mozzarella was clearly of a higher quality, and everything was just well cooked.
Reni ordered polenta with snails as a second. Here it is:
So after lunch we were completely stuffed and couldn't eat another bite. That is until we were walking around and saw these. They are apple fritters and are so, so, so, so delicious - thin slices of apple battered and fried and covered in sugar. How could that possibly not be amazing? We got one slice and split it among the three of us... the perfect bite!
Later that night, I cooked with Alessandra. We made spaghetti with zucchini and mozzarella. Yum!
