Anning spent several comfortable days in Milan.
At this time, Italian cuisine had already fully taken shape. After just a few days of enjoying Italian dishes, Anning immediately abandoned French cuisine, even though in this era French food was recognized as the highest-class cuisine.
He always felt that Italian cuisine was more suitable for a Chinese palate, possibly because it used a lot of rice?
In Milan, Anning particularly liked a dish called creamed chicory risotto. This dish used Italian-grown rice, which was very plump and round, and it fully absorbed the cheese and butter, making it extremely smooth and refreshing to eat.
Ever since he tasted this dish, Anning had his chef make it every day.
Then, because of Anning's immense prestige in his own troops, the mid- and high-ranking officers started eating it too, and then the new elite of Milan followed the French Army in eating it.
