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He said that the "heavy" Italian food in general that we think of here (lasagna, alfredo, etc.) is from northern Italy. In southern Italy, everything is much lighter.
IIRC, "red sauce Italian" is more southern/Sicily. We did not go to northern Italy. We spent a week in Naples, then 3 days in Florence (Firenzia), a day trip to Pisa (there's not jack poo there other than the tower with the bad foundation), and then 4 days in Rome (Roma). Naples was pizza and seafood. Florence was very different, I remember having a rabbit stewed with mushrooms. Rome was an eclectic mix of everything like most big cities. I don't know what their traditional food was. They did have pizza, of course, and even there it wasn't quite like Naples. Still very good, mind you.