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Simposio | Italian Recipes, Travel, and Culture: The Rome Issue
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Rome's Simposio is a traditional - and ancient - Rome cookbook with delicious recipes, beautiful pictures, myths, stories, culture, and folklore about the eternal city. Benvenuti a Roma, welcome to Rome! This Simposio is very dear to me because Rome is my city. I love it deeply, although it is a difficult place to live. My father was born here. His name, of course, is Romano, and so is my brother's. As a kid, he walked to school and, on the way back home, used to stop and play soccer with his friends... inside the Colosseum! None of that is possible nowadays: traffic reigns and the monuments are a heritage of humanity, so millions of people pay a - ridiculously low, in my opinion - sum to visit them. Kids are supervised and quite often get a car ride to go to school. Public transportation in Rome is absurd, and parking out of the question. A scooter, expensive parking, or a taxi ride are the only ways to visit the city center. And although "tutte le strade portano a Roma," all roads lead to Rome, those streets are perpetually busy, and it might take you an hour or more. But. But, but, but. Some say the Roman Empire never ended: it simply evolved into different forms. I agree. The power of Christianity is the most obvious, but there's more. Like magic. Magnetic forces possess you when you walk around temples, churches, and ruins. Spirits draw tears of pathos out of you when you listen to a song about the city. Your skin chills when you hear a sonnet decanted in the romanesco dialect. You succumb to the fierceness of the locals that stare at you like you are nothing and then do something unexpected like offering you a rose - or a gelato. In Rome, you might realistically experience the Stendhal syndrome. If you want to understand beauty and why so many people lived and died for it. Come to Rome. Don't come as a tourist, though; come as a believer. A believer in all the myths, stories, and tales that built the twins' legend. Sons of the god Mars and descendants of the goddess Venus destined to conquer the world. They are looking at you, waiting for your bow. If you do, they'll let you participate in the glorious story of Rome because, you know, if one visits, reads, or talks about it, becomes a part of it. Benvenuti a Roma. Claudia In Rome's Simposio, you will find: Ancient Rome recipes, myths, and stories Rome recipes from the city's decadent traditional cuisine pictures of beautiful places to frame your culinary experience THE INDEX: 06 Welcome To Rome 08 A Bucket List 12 Rome 14 The Beginning 18 Not in a day 26 Women 28 Vestale 32 Convivio 36 Gladiatore 40 Mercati Di Traiano 42 Adriano 48 Roma 52 Giulio 54 La Pimpaccia 58 Barcaccia 60 Trevi 62 Eating On A Triclinium 64 Apicio 66 Flavored Wine 68 Epiterium 70 Aliter Patina 72 Farro Bowl 74 Chicken Roll 76 Nutty Dates 78 Lost Gods and Creatures 80 Quirino 82 Fauno and Fauna 84 Carmenta 86 Poppea's Face Treatment 88 Venere 90 Apollo 92 Allorino 94 Diana 96 Triangle 98 Cerere 100 Bacco and Libero 102 Ciambelline Al Vino 104 Traditional Recipes 106 Eating In Rome 108 Mozzarella Crostini 110 Gricia 112 Zucchini Carbonara 114 Chickpea Soup 116 Semolina Gnocchi 120 Pasta E Patate 122 Cicoria Strascinata 124 Saltimbocca 126 Ossobuco 128 Ricotta Crostata 132 Maritozzi 134 Saturnalia
