Italian Kitchen Stories: Groceries, Laundry, Tea & Plug Debacle
Join me in my Italian kitchen as I share some fun life stories about my groceries and adjusting to life in Italy. From the surprisingly cheap white wine to buying shower gel (despite not having a shower!), I take you through my quirky haul. I also share my struggles with laundry—how do I get rid of that mildew smell? Plus, I made homemade rosehip iced tea—Italian style, without the American sugar overload. Oh, and all my plug converters? Useless! Find out why!
Chapters:
00:00 I Went Grocery Shopping in Italy: What Did I Buy?
02:38 Doing My Laundry In Italy
04:47 I Made Rose Hip Tea
05:41 When preplanning Fails: My Plug Debacle
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Where's the pastina?? haha. I definitely recommend ordering quick dry towels if you can. They aren't soft and cuddly but they get the job done.
Let me know what you think of that wine. I’ve bought some of the cheap cardboard 1 euro wine and hated it. The 3 euro bottled wine is amazing. We also have an enoteca that you can bring an empty container and get amazing Sicilian wine for 3 euro.
Nice video, btw In italian pesce means fish, pesche (the fruits) it's pronounced peske.
try relaxing and enjoy your stay instead of all that critic
why rent an old house, with minimal appliances, doors dating back two centuries, and then complain in a video. As an Italian, I'm starting to get bored by these descriptions that on one hand exalt the search for a naive world (that only exists in your minds by now) and at the same time list everything you lack, as if you were catapulted into a wild but very, very picturesque world. In Italy there are large washing machines, large dryers, not just the archaeological finds that you find in these tourist apartments. We have modern doors, with cutting-edge locks, we usually use armored doors, and not the doors of the three little pigs. The electrical sockets have the characteristics expected in Italy, why complain as if it were a drama?
Oh, the adjustments! I spend a fair amount of time in Italy (usually vacation once a year, if I'm lucky), and the locks always get me! Two turns to the left or the right, when to pull the key out, it's something I never master!
Turn your clothes inside out to prevent fading when hanging them outside on the line. -Dorcas
Lol, im laughing about the moldy towel. I grew up in Brooklyn, and we hung out our laundry. I remember going to school with the waist band still being wet. BTW i graduated in 1985 so I'm older than you.
Is it possible you need to “clean” the washer? Doesn’t seem right to have bacteria present after washing.
I get it!!! Even in the US, different areas have different customs, ways to do things, etc! Can be challenging. Go to Mexico or Canada and there are big differences. To share the differences/challenges isn't being critical. Just staying facts. If the Italians from the town went to US, they would be saying same things!!!! I'm old, born in the early 50's and I renember when we didn't have automatic washers or dryers at all. You used a wringet washer and hung your clothes outside on the line. Many of my older relatives barely had electricity (and what they had was pretty dim) or inside bathrooms. No a/c, still had cast iron stoves for heating and my great grandmother cooked on a cast iron stove clear into the 70's when she passed. So here in the US our technology, including appliances and other living conditions, have moved quickly. I still like air dried clothing and also love my dryer!!! Same for dishwasher, but I also often handwash my dishes. It's good to keep some of the old ways around!!!! Enjoy your time in Caccamo and learning the old ways!!