I recently walked into the macelleria in our Sicilian village — a combo butcher, deli, and corner store — and started babbling excitedly that my favorite cheese was back in stock. One of the owners joked in Italian that "Camellia moved here just for the food." She wasn't completely wrong.
After 20 years in New York City, my husband and I moved to a small town in Italy for some of the more classic reasons: quality food, a slower pace of life, and community-oriented culture. Now that we've lived here for nearly three years, though, we've also experienced the reality behind the tourism taglines.
