This applies to Spain too and makes walking the Camino de Santiago one of the better long distance walking experiences that exists in the world. Walking 20 km elevates 7/10 food to 10/10.
Leonardo CarellaI think this is the key to Italian (and Spanish, arguably) food culture: high average quality, not a long upper tail of the distribution. Applies to eating out but also eating in. Everyone* can put together a 7/10 meal, but far fewer people have sourdough starters or ground their coffee beans.