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This is not including the bays full of parmigiano reggiano, all at varying age limits. The dairy section of your local store is going to be set up by type of cheese, not by brand or cut. So you’ll have hard cheeses, docli (asiago DOP), burrata, mozzarella. Different stylings and cuts follow. And then over in the deli you’ll have the full roster of everything from Bleu to Asiago to Feta from Greece fresh cut and packaged by the deli team. Butter will usually be somewhere near the burrata and will come in pacakges weighed by the gram, not by the ounce. Milk and non-dairy milk will likely be on an end cap of a cheese aisle. Non-dairy nut milks can also be found in the produce section. And eggs, not refrigerated, will either be on a random end cap of an aisle or burried near the bread and potato chips. I’m serious. Sold by 6, 10 or 30 increments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6373921708841e7e4def8c1e/1673207203956-OSE5SII5KX2RQ40N0Q6X/Image-1-2.jpg Blog - cheat sheet: andiamo a supermercato - Produce The usual suspects here: fruits, vegetables, roots and herbs can all be found in the produce section. Seasonal specialties like nuts, noci, and bulk pomodori secchi, sundried tomatoes can also be purchased. How to buy: Some items like broccoli, berries and others will be barcoded individually. But others that you’re used to bagging yourself must be weighed and barcoded in the produce section (not at the cash register when checking out). Larger supermercati will have someone there to do this for you, smaller supermercati you will do this yourself at a machine. It’s easy, just type in the number to the type of item and slap the sticker on your bag. Not just a COVID thing: but please wear gloves, they’re located by the product bags for you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6373921708841e7e4def8c1e/1672753589965-YH29E57IA25J4TX84M09/IMG_2922.JPG Blog - cheat sheet: andiamo a supermercato - Crudo Crudo, salami, prosciutto, speck, mortadella pancetta… the anchors of the Italian deli. You can purchase these as shown, in bulk casings, if you are hardcore and have your own equipment at home for slicing. There is an entire separate aisle for prepackaged cured meats, slices and in smaller casings from a variety of brands across Italy. An entire deli counter with fresh sliced cured meats of the particular supermercati brand. And finally, you can be brave and order whatever you want custom from the butcher. That’s a total of four aisles, just for salt cured meats varieties. 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If you tested my genetics, I’m fairly certain you wouldn’t find any Italian DNA but in the same way my daughter’s life began in this country, so did mine. It’s not to say that the life prior to now never existed, but it ended when she was born. I didn’t realize that right away, but a new woman was created. At first I mourned the loss of her, looking back at old photos of carefree moments with girlfriends poolside in Miami. Spontaneous drinks, slept in mornings, days spent doing nothing but feeling caught up in my own emotions and worries within the walls of my studio apartment. From the moment your child is born, you will always be a mother. Whether that child lives a healthy long life, leaves you too soon, breaks a bond with you in later years, it doesn’t matter - you’re never the same again. This can be met with a great deal of resistance at first as the selfish nature in us takes over, and that’s natural. Please don’t be hard on yourself, because this has to settle in its own time. It took a while for me to stop comparing my experience as a new mom to my fellow new moms back in the States when my daughter was born. Social Media made it too easy for me to see them spending their first Mother’s Day poolside with a glass of wine in their hand while Grandmother’s fought over who got to feed the baby. Heading back into work after 8 weeks, or working their way through maternity leave and proud of it (congratulations to your employers for being such “dedicated teammates”…) Meanwhile, the border’s still closed, the grueling demand of a brief paternity leave left me alone at home healing a wound physically and emotionally. Holding my girl, taking each step of the stairs in my home two feet and a deep, sharp and painful, inhale at a time. At some point it became clear to me to turn off that signal to the west and focus on what the mothers around me were doing. How were they choosing to be moms in these first years? For starters, maternity leave in Italy is at least one full calendar year. If the mother chooses to take a second year, she still gets a percentage of her paycheck and a guarantee that her job will be waiting for her. I’ll repeat myself: That’s two years, the first two years of the child’s life that the mom is given the choice to prioritize the growth and legacy of her family. With less guilt, and more respect, for her making that choice for her family. (Yeah, I’d rather follow that example too.) I was freelancing for a woman-led jewelry company around this time when the doctors here diagnosed me with PPD. I shared this information with that company, that I was having thoughts of suicide, and they graciously allowed me a few weeks to collect myself. When I reached back out at the agreed later date, they had replaced my position with someone else. It’s not personal, it’s business… I’m sorry, there’s no eloquent way to say it: But, fuck that. Living and watching these multi-generations of Italian mothers from the sidelines has shifted my perspective on how to embrace this honor and let go of the me I used to be and the expectations I had on myself. For that, I will be endlessly grateful for the way these women have, in a way, raised me over the last two years while I was raising my daughter. I used to think the best example I could set for my child was to be a traditionally “successful”, do-it-all-woman. But dear Italian Mamma, you’ve shown me so much more. I can show her strength, I can show her values, I can show her tradition. I can show her beauty in ways that I never dreamt before. Delicate, soft and strong and unyeilding, My time here in Italy may not be forever, it’s ever present in my mind that we could be called back to the States at any moment. But that doesn’t matter anymore, because what the Italian Mother has left in me is tattooed in my heart. You have humbled me. Thank you, for shaping me, I am the mother I am and always will be because of you. 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