Cooking class and Napoli

On friday I experienced my first cooking class with our schools chef, Andrea.  We started off by going to the local market in Campo de Fuor (which is the American party place at night) and he showed us what and how to buy ingredients.  So after an hour so of shopping we went back to his kitchen where he taught us how to make an amazing 5 course meal.  The meal was unbelieveable and the main thing is that I now know how to make an awesome pasta sauce plus he is emailing mecall of the directions and ingredients which means I can share how to make this fabulous meal. 

On Saturday I had my second trip outside of Roma and went to Naples.  Me and my roommate went through a travel group called Bus2alps to make sure everything would go smoothly, but thats not at all how it started.  We were suppose to meet the group at Roma Termina which is the main trainstation in Rome so pretty simple right.  We get to the station near our apartment and by a one way pass to Roma Termina and hope on the first train we see that says Roma Termina on it.  Apparently this one had departed from Roma Termina and was heading the oppisite direction.  We all had a feeling that we were heading the wrong way but its hard to no for sure when you can't understand anything, so after 25 minutes of heading the wrong way we knew we were lost and go off at some random stop.  Immeditately as we got off another train had stopped and was going back the way we had come so we all ran and just barely caught it. 

Now we were suppose to meet at the main station at 8 we left are original station at 645 so we could be early and once we finally got on the train heading the right way it was 745.  We were screwed, we thought they were gonna leave us behind because we were 35 minutes out of the way.  So I called the women at bus2alps and told her our story and she said "sorry we are leaving at 8".  Just great now me mike and steve were going to have to spend even more money to buy a one way ticket to Naples.  So we finally arrive at the meeting spot and luckily they were still waiting for us thank god trip saved. 

After the crazy beginning the trip was smooth and was great.  I ate at the best pizza in the world at the best pizza place in the world called L'antica pizzeria Da michele which is in that new movie eat pray love or something.  Truly is the best pizza I've ever,  when we got there, there was a line out the door adn we had to wait 20 minutes for pizza, and let me remind you that this is not a tourist time at all so he was all locals waiting. When we finally sat down there menu was awsome it only had four things but we didn't even get to order because when the waiter came over who looked at our table and just said five double cheese pizzas and five beers.  Eat pizza was the size of a large and you had to eat with a fork in a knife. But this pizza experience has kinda ruined pizza for me because it makes Romes pizza taste crappy.  I'll upload some pictures soon.


Ciao