‘Some 60 Percent of Italian Restaurants Abroad Are Awful’

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  04.27.07 | 3:25 PM ET

imageThat’s the conclusion of the Italian Academy of Cooking, which has been (unhappily) reviewing hundreds of overseas Italian restaurants. In their travels, academy experts encountered stringy pasta and—gasp—pineapple on pizza, according to a BBC report. Something tells me they wouldn’t care for my goat cheese-jalapeņo pizza. Oh well.

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Photo by landexter via Flickr, (Creative Commons).