Originally Posted by
Italuminium
I'm working on a paper that sort of reviews the theory that Europe is divided in two broad culture zones, the zone of beer & butter and the zone of wine & olive oil. Clearly, Italy is the epicenter of the latter.
Which breaks down further, of course, into the risotto and pasta zones.
You're really going to have to work to explain that fact that France is hard to fathom as other than a wine and butter zone, BTW.