Month: February 2016

Bouquet of Dried Pasta, Rome, Italy
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Rome Reflections

When you visit a city fairly often, you notice things that may not have leapt off the page before.  For sure the dining season is a’changin! It’s not that we don’t love a great steak or burger. We’ve enjoyed fantastic steaks in Italy, grilled over a wood fire, the Italian way. Eating a good burger […]

Phyllis, Barberini Pasticceria, Testaccio, Rome
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The Sweet Side of Rome

They’re everywhere! Gawd knows how we could have ignored the many and I do mean many, Pasticceria’s in Rome! Maybe we just kept telling ourselves “we don’t normally eat a lot of sweets” or something.” Ha! We finally succumbed on this trip. For research purposes only you understand! A tip from Elizabeth Minchilli sent us […]