The girls’ trip was perfect: Samantha Stobo and her best friend spent two weeks in Italy drinking wine, suntanning, driving a convertible down the coast of Puglia. But there was one part of la dolce vita the 32-year-old never warmed up to: long, late, lazy dinners that rarely began before 8pm and stretched well past 10.
“I am such an early eater,” Stobo said. Back home in Miami, her “ideal dinner time” is 5.30; she simply “can’t wait” much later.
