Christmas in Rome 2019 is all about sharing time with family and friends and enjoying wonderful food! The city is increasingly filled with lovely holiday decor interspersed with beautiful nativity scenes. If you’re here over the holidays make a point of strolling around and tasting all the seasonal goodies. Here are some of my favorite…
Food in Rome
Pasta and Bean Soup – Pasta e Fagioli
Pasta and Bean Soup – Pasta e Fagioli I don’t know why I never posted my mother-in-law’s delicious recipe for pasta and bean soup – pasta e fagioli – but there you have it: it slipped through the cracks somehow. It was just when I made it the other day that I realized I had…
Bread and Tomato Appetizer
Bread and Tomato is just about the easiest and most delicious of all appetizers. If truth be told we have it just about every night while we prepare dinner, and often at lunchtime too. The key to preparing a delicious Bread and Tomato appetizer is simple: high quality ingredients! It sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Just…
Santa Cecilia Basilica in Trastevere
Visitors to Trastevere usually approach the neighborhood from the Ponte Sisto footbridge. It’s a natural thing to do after a walk through Rome’s centro storico. The area is full of people and bustling with life within its many shops, bars and restaurants. And yet if you head just a bit further along the lungotevere to the Tiber Island you’ll reach a…
Culinary Walking Tour of Rome
If you’re passionate about food and wine and want to delve deeper into Rome’s food culture, then join Flavor of Italy for our Culinary Walking Tour of Rome. We head out to the streets and neighborhoods of Rome where you’re unlikely to run into anyone but Romans out doing their market shopping, having their morning…
Molo 10 restaurant, Ponte Milvio Rome
Molo 10, Via della Farnesina, 10 – Ponte Milvio Ponte Milvio has been one of my favorite areas of Rome for decades. Wonderful shops, a great market, tasty eateries. It’s a bit off the tourist track adding to its appeal though easily accessible by public transportation or on foot. It’s also accessible from the cycling…
Pizzeria Emma and Il Vinaietto wine bar
If you’re looking for great pizza Emma Pizzeria has one of the best pizzas in Rome; delicious, thin and crispy crust with wonderful top-quality toppings. One of my favorites is pizza topped with buffalo mozzarella and fresh basil; simple and delicious. Another of my favorite pizzas that Emma does particularly well is pizza with salami…
Day trip to Ariccia in the Colli Albani southeast of Rome
Day trip to Ariccia in the Colli Albani Hills southeast of Rome Sometimes doing exactly what every tourist does when they visit Rome just isn’t what you have in mind and you’d like to experience something different, and perhaps out of Rome’s city center. As it turns out, it’s easy; there are many day trips…
Pecorino Cheese: what is it anyway?
Pecorino cheese is any hard, semi-hard or fresh cheese that is made using sheep’s milk. Seven pecorino cheeses have protected designation of origin status, or DOP, under the European union law. This means they’ve been aged upwards of 8 months and are a stagionato, pasta dura (hard) cheese. The Italian word for sheep is pecora,…
Cipriani Biscottificio
If you’re looking for a great bakery in Rome with wonderful cookies, crostate and cakes made with all natural ingredients then you have to stop by the Cipriani Bicottificio. The Piazza Vittorio area is a haven in Rome for all things culinary. It has one of the city’s best markets, full of local and international…
Supplì al Telefono: Roman-style Stuffed Rice Balls
Roman-style Stuffed Rice Balls, known in Rome as Supplì al Telefono are a classic of Roman cuisine…the roman version of street food. These luscious rice balls are stuffed with meat and cheese. As you bite into the supplì the melted cheese stretches out and resembles a telephone cord; hence the name “al telefono”. Originally the meat used to…
The Mercato Centrale in Rome’s Termini train station
The new Mercato Centrale in Rome’s Termini train station isn’t a mercato in the traditional Italian sense. It’s a great addition to the station, but reminds me more of something like a scaled-down, smaller version of San Francisco’s Ferry Building, or an Eataly. It has sixteen eateries and places to buy pizza a taglio, cheeses, great bruschetta…