€3.91 + €3

Lunch today was such a pleasure. After the interminable Michelangelo class (9:30am-1pm with a 15 minute break) which looses its joy after a while, I walked across the Tevere and stopped in a grocery store where I got a cute little package of coppa, a savory meat that I enjoy a great deal, and which I maintain can not be done justice made in America. (+I keep thinking for many reasons I ought to go to Bologna... to eat is just one of them.)

Alas. Coppa di Parma in a cute little perfect package of six slices, plus three very cute pizzette bianche, a can of beer, and Kinder barette, all for €3.91. Great price considering everything. Afterwards, as the market was closing at Campo de'Fiori, I passed some raspberries that were too good to pass up, so I paid through the nose for the pleasure. Highly worth it, as buying raspberrries usually tends to be.

Cherries are in season here, and also ridiculously good.

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Last night for dinner we had bowties and cheese, Italian style; that is, with mascarpone! instead of Velveeta, with some eggplant thrown in. Oh wow. I think there was also some Philadelphia cream cheese involved, only because I know how much the Orzalis love it. Still, magnificent.

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One comment on the current state of the Euro, which makes a great deal of sense: inflation is such that, for example, something that used to cost £it 1000 now costs €1, which used to be the equivalent of £it 1936.27. You can see where I'm going with this. Things cost effectively double. It seems that at the time, the exchange was made assuming that the US dollar would be staying strong. It has most definitely not.