I’m currently reading Eat, Pray & Love, a #1 New York Time Bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert and i must say i’m completely charmed by it. The book is about the writer herself who was on her thirties, has great career as journalist/writer, a husband and a lovely country home - in short, she has everything a woman supposed to want. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed by panic and depression. So she left everything behind and set out on a journey to italy for pleasure, india for spiritual devotion, and bali to find a balance between worldly enjoynment and divine transcendence.
I’m nowhere near finish the book yet, and what interest me is clearly not about the author life issues.
I think she has the most mouth-watering way in describing the pizza she found in Naples, Italy. Check out the quote below and see if you agree with me.
“So i have come to Pizzeria da Michelle, and i love my pizza so much that i have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.
“I always thought we only have two choices in our lives when it came to pizza crust - thin and crispy or thick and doughy. How was I to have known there could be a crust in this world that was thin and doughy? Holy of Holies! Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise.”
“On top there is a sweet tomato sauce that foams up bubbly and creamy when it melts the fresh buffallo mozarella, and the one sprig of basil in the middle of the whole deal somehow infuses the entrire pizza with herbal and radiance.
Oh man, don’t you want to have a slice of the pizza she is talking about? I’m going to Naples one day, just for the pizza.
oh, while i’m there, couldn’t hurt to have the pistachio gelato too…and capuccino, and risotto, and all kind of pasta..
