https://crystal.kitchen/tag/little-italy/ Recent content in Little Italy on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:25:42 -0400 https://crystal.kitchen/2011/09/04/an-old-new-world-arthur-avenues-little-italy/ Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:25:42 -0400 https://crystal.kitchen/2011/09/04/an-old-new-world-arthur-avenues-little-italy/ <p><a href="https://crystal.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img_0466.jpg"><img src="https://crystal.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img_0466.jpg" alt="" title="IMG_0466"></a></p> <p>When I left Italy in March, I’ll confess it wasn’t so much a graceful departure as a beeline to escape. I was tired of fighting bureaucracy in the Living Museum, missed the bustle of a proper city, and had eaten so much cured meat that my sweat stank with lactic fermentation. Italophiles may weep, but I’ll say it anyway—I was totally over Italy and ready to abandon <em>la dolce vita</em> forever.</p>