Don’t worry, friends, I haven’t decided to rescind the promise of my subtitle. I was in Alabama, I was in Rome, and now I’m back. We moved in to a new house a few weeks ago, and life has been a whirl of discombobulation since then. Finally, things are settling down. Or at least flowing [...]
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disjointed, but back
Posted in Shopping, Uncategorized on September 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ancient footprints
Posted in Herbs, Pizza, Restaurants, Shopping, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Antico Forno Roscioli Rome, eat locally, locavore, locavore in Rome on March 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Walking through Rome the other day, I had two missions: get a pizza lunch at Roscioli, and try on some shoes from the list of brands my doctor gave me. It became an emotional journey, with it’s own motifs and atmosphere of ironic pathos that is captured so well in that Dylan song, (which I [...]
Tempietto and torta mimosa
Posted in Shopping, Sweet Things, Whimsical, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eating locally, locavore in Rome, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore, Tempietto, torta mimosa on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I went on a walk this morning, after a doppio cappuccino didn’t help my concentration. Down the steep steps, around the curve of Via Garibaldi, through some narrow Trastevere streets, across Ponte Sisto to Campo di Fiori, where Giordano Bruno presides over the messy mosaic of the open air market. I stopped in some shops [...]
seasonal treats: frappe and puntarelle
Posted in Salads, Shopping, Sweet Things, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Carnevale frappe, eating locally, local eating, local food, locavore, locavore in Rome, puntarelle, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on January 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We’re in the season of Carnevale, the forty days before Lent, which used to be, for Italians, one long party, when masquerade meant license. (For some of Lord Byron’s lines on this tradition, check out my fritter post.) Speaking of fritters, frappe—a crispy, ruffled kind of fried dough topped with a blizzard of powdered sugar—is [...]
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 [...]
some Roman domes I love
Posted in Bread, Cheese, Shopping, Sweet Things, tagged Amy Campion food, Antica Caciari Rome, Antico Forno Roscioli Rome, eating locally, local eating, local food, locavore, locavore in Rome, roving locavore on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The forecast was for rain for the long Thanksgiving weekend, but each day, we had mist and then sun. That was a nice turn of events, because we had lots of touring of Rome to do with our visitors. Yesterday morning, I had to swear to everyone that I didn’t plan it this way, but [...]
sardines with aioli
Posted in Eggs, Seafood, Shopping, Wine, tagged aioli, American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, local food, locavore, locavore in Rome, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore, sardines on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re so coddled here, with the wonderful food prepared for and served to us at the Academy. So it was with real satisfaction last night that I prepared a meal requiring what felt like authentic labor: beheading fish and whisking for a good half hour. The meal was utterly simple, and maybe that’s why it [...]
braised pork & grass-roots
Posted in Dairy, Grain, Industry, Meat, Philosophical, Shopping, Trends, tagged agricoltura biologica, agricultural biodiversity, American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion food, Biola, eating locally, Food Inc. film, Lo Spicchio, local eating, local food, locavore, Rome locavore, roving locavore on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my last post, I attempted both to recommend Food Inc., and to criticize what I saw as the overly facile closing message (“vote with your fork”). There was more to the event, here at the American Academy in Rome, and there is a positive alternative to the dark suggestion of the film that Monsanto [...]
Food Inc.: impressions
Posted in Industry, Shopping, Trends, tagged Amy Campion, Food Inc. film, industrial agriculture, roving locavore, sustainable agriculture on November 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Images are powerful—especially moving ones. I’ve done so much reading about the industrial food system, about big organics, about sustainable agriculture. None of the content of Food Inc., which I saw yesterday at the American Academy screening, came as a surprise to me, but it still made a powerful impression because of the combination of [...]
turtles and men in trees
Posted in Baking, Shopping, Sweet Things, Whimsical, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, locavore Rome, roving locavore on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another winding walk today—this time down the stairs rather than up to the park. I had a few various goals: to see the turtle fountain Jim Ackerman told us about the other night; to buy some whole-grain flour and some nuts at Canestro; to see some new narrow streets; and, if possible, to find chocolate [...]
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