In Rome, fried food is a serious matter, a challenge between cod, sweetbreads, supplì and pumpkin flowers that every restaurant carries out like a mission. Specializing in more traditional cuisine, Fritto alla Romana is a dish that goes beyond simple pleasure, it is a moment of pure enjoyment. Peculiar care for frying, that should be […]
Even though it is common of the whole central Italy, Supplì is a proper Roman dish that reenters in the tradition of the authentic Italian street food. The name seems to derive from the French word for “surprise” alluding to the different varieties of the stuffing. The classical version is staffed with boiled rice seasoned […]
For many, ice-cream is not only the best poignant kind of food, because of its association to great summer memories and happy birthday parties… Overall, it is also a simple privelege, a fresh and cheerful treat. As the English people highlight and teach us using the appellation “ice-cream”, I really think that the most interesting […]
Quality without compromise is the “diktat” for these cozy oenogastronomic cult locations. That is to say, the supply of different selected traditional products and the selling of colonial and ethnic goods, coming from everywhere… These shops may be called in many different ways: grocery stores, delicatessen or take aways, but what they have in common […]
Popular recipes such as abbacchio (roasted lamb), coda alla vaccinara (Roman oxtail stew), the cuisine of quinto quarto (literally “fifth quarter”, made with the offal of butchered animals), the Jewish cuisine with broccoli and arzilla (a kind of ray fish), Jewish style artichokes and anchovies with endive. But Roman cuisine is represented by four foundations of pasta dishes: cacio e pepe (milk’s sheep cheese), amatriciana (tomato, cured […]
In Italy we are having a new factual season for pizza; here personality and creativity merge into a synthesis of expressive quality for the technique, for the natural bread-making and the use of the best raw materials. In this scenery Rome doesn’t make a poor showing; on the contrary the Italian capital may offer rare, […]
Guanciale, pecorino cheese, egg, salt and pepper. Preferably with spaghetti. These are the ingredients of carbonara, the essentials for one of the most famous Italian recipe. To give space to them, too often unlearned, the #carbonaraday has been organized. Chosen not by chance the date remember when, a year ago, the French site Demotivateur published […]