What is Italian food? You probably think you know. I thought I knew too. Italian food is about fresh! Fresh in this sense means two things, regional and seasonal. So each region of Italy would traditionally have its own cuisine that would shift based on the time of year. Whatever could be gotten local and […]
Rome is a city of 7 hills, a thousand piazzas and a million tourists. Historic Rome is cuddled in the bend of the Tiber river. Across the river to the south is Trastavere, which translates roughly to “across the Tiber.” In this area though there is a hill. A hill which looks over Rome. It […]
The Colosseum is not a name for a amphitheater, it kind of just means “really big thing”. I should have realized it. I have brushed up against enough Latin in my day. I know what a Colossus is and we still use the word colossal in English today. The official name of the building was […]