Just when you think you can’t eat or drink anything else, someone has a party. That’s just how the holidays are. Yesterday, we invited a few friends who are leaving Rome today to have a low-key dinner with us. I planned to make those cabbage-wrapped pork meatballs I wrote about recently. Then, we got Nick’s [...]
Archive for December, 2009
from meat to mousse
Posted in Drinks, Sweet Things, tagged Amy Campion food, chocolate mousse, eat locally, local food, locavore, locavore Rome, pork meatballs, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
juice of the just-plucked blood orange
Posted in Drinks, Fruit, Wine, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, blood orange, citrus cocktail, eat locally, Italian orange, local food, locavore, locavore Rome, mimosa, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore, Tarocca orange on December 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The day after Christmas: rain, cleaning up all done, children melting down, boredom, no hot water for a cathartic shower (again! really! what’s up with that?)…. For the fifth time today, Jack whined, “Mommy, I’m hungry.” I looked around the kitchen—not much there. Then I remembered the orange trees. Let’s go pick an orange to [...]
pre-party
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow. There are so many potluck festivities ahead. Top (and all over, really): dairy essentials for the next few days of children’s snacks. Middle: chilled essentials for the next few days of parents’ drinks. Bottom: six local, hormone- and antibiotic-free chickens ready for roasting.
Super Carni
Posted in Meat, Sweet Things, tagged Amy Campion, eat locally, local food, locavore, locavore in Rome on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
That’s the name of the butcher’s shop where I’ll be buying the chickens for the Christmas potluck. I love it there. It’s the only place I can think of where amidst carcasses, I feel a sense of comfort. The older couple who own it do everything with care and friendliness. While his wife chats with [...]
flurry
Posted in Beer, Fungi, Meat, Pasta, Restaurants, Whimsical, Wine, tagged Amy Campion food, eat locally, local food, locavore Rome, Pizzeria da Simone Rome, Villa Pamphili on December 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Of activity, that is. (The real flurries are more like blizzards, falling on friends and relatives all up and down the east coast.) But life here has been moving so fast, and what do I have to show for it? No photos of food, anyway. The food has disappeared before the camera reached it. Friday [...]
good old Roman basics
Posted in Restaurants, Seafood, tagged Amy Campion food, eating locally, Il Fagiolo Magico Rome, Il Galeone Rome, locavore, locavore Rome, Rome restaurants, roving locavore, seafood restaurants Rome on December 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the past two days I’ve been to two good old Roman basic restaurants that served delicious meals and a whole bunch of good old Roman basic tourist spots. (My parents are visiting.) Last night: Il Galeone, in Piazza San Cosimato, just down the hill from us: either take the bus down the S-curves of [...]
Terra Madre and tree decorating
Posted in Pasta, Vegetables, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion food, eat locally, local eating, locavore, locavore Rome, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore, Slow Food Italia, Slow Food Rome, Terra Madre Slow Food on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night’s dinner was a celebration. The meal marked the inauguration of the American Academy in Rome as a Slow Food Terra Madre Community. Terra Madre is a network of food producers, purveyors, artisans, and consumers committed to making food sustainable for human economies and communities and for the planet. The event started at 4:00 [...]
rainy holiday in Rome
Posted in Philosophical, Trends, tagged agricultural biodiversity, American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, eating locally, local food, locavore, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore, Slow Food, Terra Madre on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s rainy, school’s out, and everything’s closed for the feast of the Immaculate Conception. We made pizza for lunch, and now Jack is busy with various projects involving wooden trains, plastic tractors, blocks, legos, paint, and books. I’m drinking espresso, listening to Let It Be, and reading various things on the Slow Food website. This [...]
from meatballs to masked ball
Posted in Meat, Pasta, Pork, Shopping, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, eat locally, local food, locavore, locavore Rome, meatballs wrapped in cabbage, pork meatballs, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t actually been making or eating as many meatballs as it may seem from the frequency of their appearance in these posts. But last night I did make a new (for me) variation on an old theme: meatballs that were halfway between Lions Heads from Shanghai cuisine and Milanese, with some of my favorite [...]
a Dundee special in Rome
Posted in Beer, Seafood, Sweet Things, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion food, Rome sustainable food on December 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last night, the RSFP kitchen did it again. They had us swooning and stuffing our bellies and calling out for more. This time, the dish was fish-n-chips. One of the kitchen interns, Camilla, had been homesick for Scotland and this specialty, so she and the crew fried up a massive amount of fish and potatoes. [...]
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