Beer Battered Fried Courgette Flowers Roman-Style
Fiori di Zucca Fritti in Pastella di Birra alla Romana. Different preparations with courgette flowers are common throughout Italy as a starter dish from Liguria till the deep South –…
Saltimbocca Alla Romana
Saltimbocca alla Romana is a simple and tasty veal meat dish, a secondo piatto typical of Roman cuisine since the 19th Century. The name literally means “jump-in-your-mouth”. Saltimbocca only require…
Vignarola – Vegetable Side Dish from Lazio
This recipe comes from Lazio, the region where Rome is located; in the local dialect, the word ‘vignaroli’ come from the Italian word vigna – vineyard, and they are the…
Guanciale, Italian Cured Pork Jowl
Guanciale is a cut of meat, later transformed into cured meat, typical of Central and part of Southern Italy, but it finds its greatest fame in the town of Amatrice,…
The Sacred Wood of Monsters of Bomarzo, Lazio
Mythological and sinister figures and gods like Hercules, Neptune, Pegasus, Isis, Ceres, Proserpine, Cerberus (the three-headed dog mentioned in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy), peep out from the foliage of the…