A few years ago I visited Italy with my family, sightseeing at the typical tourist destinations. The food scene was straight out of a movie: open air cafes lining the streets and fresh markets on every corner. When we traveled to a smaller town in the north, we noticed something we hadn't seen in the metropolises: supermarkets. The stores could have been transplanted directly from AnyTown, USA, except for the produce section providing plastic gloves for more sanitary handling and the minor detail of food labels being in Italian. The idea of a store stocked...