Day 21-22

Trip Start May 07, 2008
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Trip End Jun 23, 2008


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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Day 21 (W)     I don't have class until 1 today so I didn't head in to CAPA early.  Jerry came back between his classes to do laundry, so I headed back with him we stopped to get lunch at a sit down place I got Panalladara di lepre.  It's a very wide flat noodle with stewed rabbit once again very very very good.  Class was short today only 1 hours but we talked about the Medici coming to power and Donatello's seconded David statue his bronze David for Cosimo Medici.  His first was for the guild republic in Palazzo Vecchio so Cosimo was challenging the republics power buy commissioning a David but built out of a more expensive medium.  Then we talked about all the symbolism in the Bronze David there is enough info to fill a 1000+ page book so I'll leave it out.  Not a very eventful day but it's a day in Florence so it was good.  I got to cook again tonight I made cheesy pesto mashed potatoes with peppered chicken and Brussel sprouts in garlic oil.  It was nice to eat a home cooked meal again.  Afterward I attempted to make Panna cotta it has to cool until tomorrow, will see how it turns out because we couldn't find vanilla Defensive starters
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Day 22 (Th)     Today Michele, Alli, and I have to give our presentation on traditional Italian meals.  The presentation went very well.  Went back to the apt. and tried the panna cotta it was good but we messed up the order so the gelatin started to cool before we added the milk and cream so there were little balls of unflavored gelatin in the panna cotta which gave it a weird texture next time we should get it right though.  From the apt we went to the stadium to watch the Italian national team practice it was cool to see some big stars even though I had no clue who they were, but Ti know most of them so he filled me in.  We went to see Luigi after we got back and got an amazing wine the best I have had so far it was Negramara (something like that) it was very dark.  For dinner I made peppered chicken with onions over cheesy pesto mashed potatoes.  We went to bed early because we had to wake up early to get to the train station for our 8:45 train to Naples.
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