What 1 meal from your travels abroad do you miss the most??

@Mamapolo2016 sounds heavenly yummmm

@HannahSky I have not, no ma'am.

Have you?

@mark245pineapple Not in Italy and I don't know if I have anywhere else.

@HannahSky I see. yeah I don't think I've ever even been exposed to it. Doubt I've seen one

@AnonymouslyYours you have my attention... never heard of this. sounds delicious

@mark245pineapple I only knew the recipes by the Ukrainian names which I couldn't come close to spelling. The difference amounts to this: The best any fancy North American restaurant (with a culinary school trained chef) can accomplish is to make a piece of art on your plate that tastes like prepackaged food. ( mainly because a lot of it is.) By contrast, my grandmother would spend two or three days preparing for a feast and even the sour kraut was made from scratch, requiring the cabbage enough time to properly ferment.

@Anonymartyr It is the beauty of travel. Some of the best food I've ever had were very simple (4-6 ingredient) items that just took time to prepare. humble meals in Colombia and Mexico trashed anything Ive had in professional kitchens.

@mark245pineapple Good home cooking is by far the best. I remember a Haitian oman once served me something she made with chicken and rice, veggies etc. and some exotic seasoning which was amazing- but again, this is not something that you would find dining out somewhere, you would have to be in some poor families' hovel to learn of it. The very posh Italian restaurant I worked at focused on coastal village recipes, primarily Mediterranean seafood appetizers. This was not a pasta place. Our best recipes there were all home cooking recipes from different coastal areas.

Ye it’s sad. Common there though. Another dish my sister swears by on her travels is something called mantu. Think it’s a dumpling 🥟 @mark245pineapple

@Carlisle yes! I've heard of them one or twice and they look mouth watery as fuuuuuuuck!!! I would probably down 30 of them in a sitting

☺️👍🏽😋@mark245pineapple

@Deepbreath just googled it, that sounds delicious

@mark245pineapple It is amazing. I love the Portuguese food