Italians take their food seriously.
How seriously? There’s a company called Flying Mozzarella that will deliver you freshly made mozzarella from Italy to anywhere in Europe (and possibly further, I’m not sure). You order online – in 1kg increments – they make it in the morning and ship it by air right away. It’s delivered it in the afternoon and you’re supposed to eat it the same day in order to fully enjoy it.
This sounds quite crazy and I laughed when a group of coworkers made an order together to split the shipping cost (it’s less than €2/kg if you have enough people). It sounded like too much trouble and besides, how would I eat a kilo of cheese by myself?!
The idea took off: people liked the cheese and group orders were organized every other month or so for the past half year. The most recent one happened last week and given that I now have an Italian flatmate that I could split with, I joined in. Last Thursday, my dinner consisted entirely of very freshly made Italian mozzarella, sliced tomatoes, olive oil and bread.