I want to give pasta a few weeks of vacation, because I’m afraid it might “burn out,” but not before giving you the recipe I’ll be talking about today: Mezze Maniche with speck, arugula, and cherry tomatoes. When I first discovered it, we lived through a period of extreme romance, of not being able to live without it, daydreaming about…
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Spaghetti with garlic, oil, and chili pepper
Have you noticed, those of you who have been to Rome, that among the paintings and photographs that adorn the walls of restaurants in the center, you often find a photograph of Alberto Sordi eating spaghetti? The most curious thing about it is that almost all tourists find it very funny, they recognize the lead actor, but they cannot say…
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The Little Amatrice
La Piccola Amatrice was the first restaurant in Rome where I had dinner and where I have eaten the best spaghetti alla carbonara of my life. A long time passed during which we didn’t go back there, because at that time we worked in Rome just like now, but we lived in Bracciano, a small town almost 50 km northwest…
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Pasta with tuna and rosemary aroma
I remember perfectly the first time I ate pasta with tuna, because I had a stomach ache of the kind that only embarrassment gives you enough courage not to go walking hunched over with your nose touching your knees, with the false illusion that you will feel better in that position. As bad as it sounds, I confess: I chose…
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Fusilli lunghi with sausage and spinach
One of the first things I asked the locals was whether that colorful pasta, which almost everyone brings you as a little souvenir from a trip to Italy, and which usually ends up in the trash bin, expired, because it was too cute to eat, was ever used in Italian homes, or if it was just an invention for tourists.…
