Dear Readers, Thanks for sticking with me in my absence. I’ve been busy finishing my dissertation, and am finally down to proofreading, formatting, and double-checking footnotes. I’ve also been eating well, and enjoying as much time as possible with our good friends here during our last weeks in Rome. And I’ve been having fun with [...]
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checking in
Posted in Sweet Things, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, roving locavore on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
long lapse
Posted in Poetry, Sweet Things, tagged Amy Campion on April 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thank you for sticking with me, readers. I’ve been busy with visitors, Jack’s 5th birthday party, more visitors, my dissertation, dissertation, dissertation… Did you know that it wasn’t until the 1840s that wood pulp was used to make paper? Or that Byron could speak so aptly of 21st century America? Man’s a strange animal and [...]
dolci & vini
Posted in Drinks, Sweet Things, Wine on February 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Sweets and wines. That seems to be the theme of the weekend, starting yesterday morning when Jack and I made an errand-packed trip to Dolci Desideri to soak up the scene as well as the coffee and treats. A happy crowd always packs the small space in front of the counter, but the orders flow [...]
ghetto doughnuts
Posted in Sweet Things, Whimsical, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, local food, locavore in Rome, Rome locavore on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday morning was spectacularly sunny, and warming up quickly. We had our first spring day (followed by more rain today). It was perfect for our walk—with Anna, Jon, Lulu, Jesse, Rena, Nick, and Zoe—down the hill and across the Tiber to the old Jewish ghetto where one special forno makes perfect doughnuts. When we got [...]
primavera
Posted in Dairy, Fruit, Nuts, Sweet Things, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion food, eat locally, Fior di Luna gelato, local food, locavore Rome, Rome sustainable food, Trastevere gelateria on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The gelaterias are opening their doors. Puddles in the cobblestones sparkle in the sunlight. Rainstorms are rushing through, and leaving in their wake warm spots and green buds. During one of these post-rain spells yesterday, Jack and I walked down to Trastevere to buy a birthday present for Agnese, whose party is today. Our favorite [...]
Borromini on a beautiful morning
Posted in Sweet Things, Water, Whimsical on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The weather this weekend is Janus-faced: stormy, dark, and wintry yesterday, bright, clear, and spring-like today. A perfect morning for walking around Rome, and for seeing the sunlight stream through the windows of Borromini’s whimsical, symmetrical, magnificent dome of Sant’ Ivo della Sapienza. I think this space was meant to be seen, and felt, on [...]
Saturday’s spices, smoke, and multi-colored snow
Posted in Sweet Things, Whimsical, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, local food, locavore Rome, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s cold, rainy, and February. But with a fire in the fireplace, an amazing Indian lunch, and a handful of confetti, we brightened up this dismal day. Jon and some of the kids went out to the Triangle Garden to gather some dampish wood. It lit… and smoked and hissed… but also blazed, and had [...]
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 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 »
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 [...]
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