Umbria’s eight-course meal stretches the boundaries of gastro excellence, not to mention waistlines
In 2007 a real popular book about healthy eating came out called “Why French Women Don’t Get Fat.” Someone could easily write one today entitled “Why Italians Don’t Get Fat.” And they don’t, regardless of what you believe or see on goofy TV shows or the streets of New Jersey. Only a third of Italians are overweight, half that of the United States. Here’s the reason in one sentence: They eat healthy food in smaller portions and walk instead of drive.
With one meal in Umbria, some friends and I blew that theory right into the Adriatic Sea.
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