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I have a bit of experience with "Italian" food in the NE US. My impression - and that's all it is - is that it is tasty, but not very Italian. I know that people from the NE US are proud of their Italian food, but I am not yet convinced that it is really that authentic. Again, I am open to being proven wrong, but my current impression of it is that it is a mutated version of southern Italian/Sicilian food. Despite that impression, I would be delighted to be corrected if I could find places to experience that are counter to that.
One gap in my Italian experiences is that I never ate in someone's home. Always in restaurants associated with hotels or on the street. In various locations in small towns in southern Italy, northern Italy and in Rome and other big cities. Some fancy, some ordinary. Panini, pasta, seafood, veggies, stuff like that. But, different from in the US, where we use panini as if it referred to the singular, rather than panino. And they don't drink cappuccino except in the morning ... little details like that. I recall one of the admins in our Rome office saying about Er Faciolaro : "don't go there, its only for tourists" ... but when I went there, it only had Italian-speaking customers. Haven't found anything like it in the US.
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