Main Courses - Meat

Knowing that Southern Italians enjoy a healthy Mediterranean diet, one wonders where they put all the meat they consume after the antipasto and primo. However, meat is never served in large portions because the secondo is only one stage in the meal rather than the main event. Beef and veal are only occasionally eaten in the South, which lacks the rich pastures of the North. Sometimes buffalo meat is eaten and it is apparently very tasty indeed, but most buffalo are kept purely for their milk to make mozzarella.