Today we visited my favorite restaurant in the Southern Minnesota area, Neighbors Italian Kitchen. Here we had a preset course of caprese bruschetta, lasagna and tiramisu. It was a lovely meal. We heard from chef and sous chef about how they adapt the recipes from the original Italian recipes. For example, they don't use ricotta in their lasagna.
We also had a challenge to see how observant we can be. We were told to describe what we see... we all focused in on the structure in front of us. No one noticed that all 23 of us were wearing grey Eat Italy! shirts or that there was carpet on the floor or screen projector down behind two students, etc. This exercise was meant to simulate what we will need to observe when traveling around Italy as well as giving us a new perspective on art that we mays see.