It's Christmas Eve, clouds come and go in the sky. We stay home and thanks to the request of my professional association I made a short video to wish you all the best and to flee together open air in the beauty of Rome. It seems that this year we need especially good wishes and our imagination empowered. The task was to realize a video less than a minute describing something peculiar in Rome about Christmas.
This cake is supposed to celebrate the winter solstice and the rebirth of the sun with the triumph of light over darkness. The traces of this celebrated cake are to find in the cook book by Marcus Gaius Apicius, wrote in 1st century. There is unluckily a missing part and even if the ingredients are the same we have no evidence that it is the same one. Anyway I made my personal version of...
Eating in Italy has being always a serious business... If you look around our main train station Termini and you see how many junk food businesses are filling the streets you might doubt. Stop.