LoveItaly

Hello Oboe1, here is a website that talks about having dinner in a private residence in Italy. I hope you can read it, the font is rather small. This is the program that I am sure someone else experienced and posted about some time ago. Best regards.

http://www.americanwaymag.com/tabid/...9/default.aspx

ComfyShoes

bratsandbeer, Still not <i>exactly</i> the same thing but very good point. I like B&amp;Bs too. Thanks.

LoveItaly

Topping for Oboe1.

travel2live2

B&amp;Bs all the time for me, too. Just love them - a much more person and local and authentic feel than hotels in my opinion. Don't get me started - I am passionate about B&amp;Bs!!!

Valeria_82

Dear Oboe1,

Carta_Pisana is right:
http://www.homefood.it/index.php?loc...&amp;=&amp;do=
is what you're looking for

Have fun!

vetralla

The Cesarine movement has good press here in Italy. When friends visiting Italy eat at home with us they always mention how much tastier everything is..especially when compared to the shipboard restaurants .
Maybe its because in Italy we do the shopping for fresh food daily and we use only food in season, right from the farmers' garden. Tuesdays and Fridays are fish days.

Graziella5b

We have eaten in friend 's homes and in the homes of members of my husband's family in Italy. As Vetralla points out Italians buy fresh produce almost daily, or daily, and they do this with the outmost care, the result usually is wonderful food.
When visiting our family I often go shopping with them and it always amazes me way they carefully choose each ingredient. Next time we visit Bologna we shall be looking for a paid dinner in the house of an Italian family. In my experience they can be much better than those in many restaurants. Of course the wonderful restaurants are out there too.

jesshabz

I am an american living in italy and the best experience i have found is to stay at an agriturismo. most of them have 4 or 5 rooms which are for rent and you stay at the house with the family and also eat there. the food is amazing and you also get a great feel for the culture as well as an opportunity to taste the wine, olive oil, and other produce made on the property. i always recommend this to friends visiting. if you search for agriturismo venezia, i am sure you will find plenty of places that offer this.

Jake1

traveller--yes, there are probably a lot of Italian families living in Venice. Last I saw the permanent population is about 60,000, and I'd imagine a goodly number are Italians with families. Of course, Venice never had a huge permanent population in the first place, with most estimates of maximum permanent population around 150,000-170,000. And it always had a lot of non-Venetians in residence, too.

vincenzod

Not more than two, because I have not room enough, it is a pleasure for us (my American girlfriend and I) to invite you to dine at our home (it's free, obviously !!!).
Which menu ?
Which wines ?
We'll see !



Vincenzo

zeppole

I'm coming Vincenzo! I'll just bring my husband.

Vincenzo lives in a particularly delicious part of Italy, famed for both its seafood, seafood stews, and its marvelous pastas.

The best food in Italy is in people's homes. I wouldn't hesitate to pay an Italian family to cook for me. There is no such thing as eating with strangers in Italy once you've walked through the door of an Italian home.

Fortunately, where I live in Italy, a fair proportion of the local restaurants and panificios are operated by families, so while the ambience can never really be quite as warm, the food is prepared with the same skill and intention that you are a treasured friend. And there is a world of difference between that and eating in a restaurant run by businessmen.

Last year, in one restaurant, the woman who usually does the cooking had a baby, and for weeks we all kept waiting for her to get back! It was like an Italian movie. We were all happy for the baby, but we really missed the pesto!

Tim_Barnett

I'd be very happy to invite wealthy folk round to share my modest evening fare. Say $100 per person!

Oboe1

Well, thank you all for your responses. Interesting to see how different our views are. This world would be a pretty boring place if we were all the same, I guess. What better way to experience the Italian way of life than to have dinner with a family in their own home. I would imagine that anyone who would be prepared to host &quot;strangers&quot; in their home and feed them would be wonderfully generous of spirit and mind. I certainly do not mind paying for the privilege of sharing a meal with them and getting to know the culture better. What a great opportunity for them to also meet people from other countries over a meal. If there is nothing else in common other than the food, so what? How else do you get to meet people and experience their culture in this day and age of sceptics? The naysayers probably turn their noses up at paid guides too. FYI - It was with Samantha Brown on the Travel Channel where I first saw this, and it was somewhere in Italy - Rome or Florence if I recall. Thanks for the tips on where to look. I will let you know how it goes......Oboe1

LoveItaly

Best wishes to you Oboe. I always feel very blessed as 80% of my dinners when I am in Italy are in the homes of my Italian friends. The balance of the dinners is when I take them to restaurants as a way to thank them for their loving and generous hospitality. The meals I always remember the best are the homecooked meals!

And if one thinks about it, families that host exchange students from other countries open up their homes to strangers and the students live in what at the beginning is a stranger's home.

Have a wonderful time in Italy and let us know about your experiences. Best regard.

Carta_Pisana

I think the link I posted is the one associated with Samantha Brown's show.


http://www.homefood.it/

vincenzod

Zeppole, you're welcome; tell me when and feel free to e-mail me.
Thanks.


Vincenzo