This past Thursday, my fellow CIMBA students and I went out for our second gourmet dinner. Everyone got dressed up for the occasion and we shared in on an amazing, authentic Italian meal in Bassano del Grappa, a town about thirty minutes from my school. This is a cool thing to share with all of you because not only does it give you a sense of true Italian cuisine, but it also allows for you to virtually meet my best friends here at CIMBA. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy the photos!
Before our food babies: Brittany from South Carolina, myself, and Jodi from Iowa.
Pre-food babies: Jodi, Liz, myself, and Allison.
Antipasti (aka appetizer): Treviso red chicory pie in an Asiago cheese sauce.
It was perfection at its finest!
Primi: Hand-made pasta with vegetable ragout.
This was by far my favorite dish thus far in Europe. Yum!
Case in point: Italians do not know how to embrace vegetarianism.
Can you guess what you see?
If you guessed two blocks of fried cheese with potatoes, you guessed right.
It's okay to laugh. I did, too...along with the rest of my table.
Orange bavarian with chocolate sauce.
Let me tell you, it made up for the fried cheese.
Myself and Jodi posing between courses.
Liz and I during dinner.
Myself and Jodi at dinner.
These dinners are so much fun to go to. The food is spectacular, but it's even better when you have great friends to share it with. Jodi, Allison, Liz, and Brittany are some of the greatest people I have met. It is times like these that allow me to see how lucky I am to have such a great team of people alongside me throughout this journey. We have faced and overcome various challenges together. We all come from different walks of life; we have learned from each other and witness each other grow to new extremes. Together, we have become better, stronger, healthier, happier individuals. I will miss them when I'm gone, but we've made a pact to keep in touch -- distance doesn't matter. Dealing with the distance between Europe and Chicago has been hard enough; a few hours in a car doesn't even come close.
Until Next Time --- Ciao!
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