Pamela Iorio

Pamela Iorio: According to data from statistics agency ISTAT, lunch is the most important meal of the day for 68 per cent of Italians and 74.3 per cent usually eat it at home, a figure which has grown as a long recession has hit spending on food and eating out, according to The Star. Its very important to Italians to eat something proper, sitting down, even if its just a plate of spaghetti, said Pamela Iorio, a physiotherapist, as she shopped for fruit and vegetables in her local suburban market in Rome. People dont like just eating sandwiches and ROME Of all the statistics available on Italy and its varied economic problems, few are as eye-opening as the fact that at around 1 p.m. on any given day, three-quarters of the population will normally be sitting down to lunch in their own homes. As anyone who has seen the shuttered afternoon streets of a small Italian town knows, it can be hard to get much done at lunchtime in Italy, even though many shops and businesses stay open until relatively late in the evening to compensate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.