Anziano Scherbel's new favorite

Anziano Scherbel discovered a new favorite scripture.  We thought it might be a favorite also of many of our children who like to eat as we do. I can hear him quoting it to me every day for the rest of our lives!   The scripture is the last line of 1 Nephi 16:23

                                         "WHITHER SHALL I GO TO OBTAIN FOOD?"

                                                 We think the answer is, "Go to Italy"!!

The food is seriously so good.  It is hard to describe.  We have had so many new tasting experiences.
For example, just in this past week, there were three different  Italian dishes that we never had before.
 
Last Friday we ate at Flavia's house.  Her grandmother had gathered wild mushrooms in the mountains around their house, (their house is way up in the mountains).  She also gathered walnuts that grew on trees around their home.  And they  fixed a pasta dish that was incredible.  She sautéed the mushrooms in olive oil with some garlic.  Then she added a cup and a half of cream and then the walnuts.  She tossed this into the pasta and voila we had such a yummy lunch. For desert we had fruit, and we got to try an Italian persimmon.  It was quite crisp almost like jikama, and sweet like an apple.  It  seems that the ones I have tried in the US are much softer and not as good as this one.  After lunch she gave us a huge squash that was about 2 1/2 feet long and about 6 inches around in a perfect cylinder shape. I never saw a squash like this.  We didn't know how to cook it.  So Paul asked Ivan, our resident professional chef, what do we do with this.  He said he would come over and show us.

So on Saturday, Ivan came over and showed me how to make Risoto.  He cooked the squash.  He
cooked rice in a very unusual way and added the cooked squash and walnuts and we had a delicious lunch.
Saturday night, we visited with a non member family that we really like.  They invited us to eat dinner with them.  We had a very simple meal.  The tomato salad was just cut up tomatoes, salt and olive oil.  It was so good.  That was our main meal, along with bread to dip in the olive oil of the tomato salad, and a few slices of proschuito and cheese.  We had fruit for dessert.  It was perfect.
Sunday we had the missionaries over to eat lasagne that I made. Monday and Tuesday we were in Napoli all day.
Wednesday morning I had a cooking class at my apartment for the relief society sisters.  We had lots of fun and there was plenty to eat.  I showed them how to make lemon meringue pie, melt-a-way cookies (thanks to Sue's wonderful recipe), and Mrs Fields Chocolate Chip cookies. The picture below is with everyone eating pie.
So we have truly found the answer to the above scripture question.  The answer is "Italy"!