we're gonna gain weight

Mac announced to me the other day that "we're gonna gain weight in Italy from eating all that spaghetti and pizza and gelato".

Budget Travel is my most favorite travel magazine to read, and this month they fortuitously featured "eating like a local in Rome". They chose 5 restaurants and picked a best dish at each one. The best dishes are as follows:

1. Rigatoni cacio e pepe: rigatoni drizzled in olive oil, with black pepper and a small mountain of freshly grated pecorino cheese
2. Tagliolini al tartufo: a bowl of fresh pasta topped with a generous helping of rich black truffles from Abruzzi or Umbria and a touch of olive oil
3. Pasta alla mafiosa: heaping bowl of rigatoni corti tossed with tomato sauce, eggplant, and creamy ricotta
4. Spaghetti alla gricia: a bowl of warm spaghetti piled high with freshly grated pecorino cheese, cracked black pepper and several chunks of salty, perfectly fatty pancetta
5. Rigatoni all'Amatriciana: rigatoni with mildly spicy tomato sauce with pancetta

Um. Yes.

To all of them.

I will have the elastic waistbands packed.