Braving Naples To Channel My Inner Julia Roberts
Before salivating on the mozzarella melting in Julia Robert's pizza in Sony Pictures' "Eat, Pray, Love," I have already collected a liter of drool while reading the book of Elizabeth Gilbert and swore to fly to Naples one day just to eat that pizza. Pizzeria da Michele should thank Gilbert because seven million readers (that's how much books she sold) now have Naples as part of their bucket list despite its notoriety. And notorious as an adjective to Naples is an understatement. This is how author Elizabeth Gilbert describes Naples in her book "Eat, Pray, Love," "Wild, raucious, noisy, dirty, ball-out Naples. An anthill inside a rabbit warren, with all the exotocism of a Middle Eastern bazaar and a touch of New Orleans voodoo. A tripped-out, dangerous, and cheerful nuthouse. My friend Wade came to Naples in the 1970s and was mugged... in a museum. The city is all decorated with laundry that hangs from every window and dangles across every street; ev...