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I do not know the names of the best things I ever ate, but I know where and when I ate them – and I know that telling about them will demonstrate all too well that I have a sweet tooth and a love for carbohydrates.  One of the things was some kind of dark chocolate confection that was shaped like a ball about the size of one used to play Lacrosse.  I had gone off on my own (not so smart) when I was spending a week in Rome, and had wandered in to a cafeteria-style restaurant where no English was spoken.  I pointed to pasta and maybe a side dish, and to the ball of chocolate.  I have no idea what was so different and so good about that cakey, velvety dark brown ball but that was thirty years ago and I can still close my eyes and taste it.  The other, somewhat similar, taste experience was a casserole in Istanbul, also in a cafeteria where (this time with a group – smarter) we pointed to things we wanted.  We went there several times and each time I ordered a larger serving of it.  I do not know what it was.

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