HeyJaredHalf Roman
Italy explained but never simplified by a New Yorker and journalist who has spent half her lifetime in Rome.
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Takeaway, Italian-Style (opens the original)
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My first tangle with Italian takeout involved an empty wooden vegetable crate laden with six white porcelain plates containing three orders of steaming pasta.I and my colleague Jennifer staggered for a couple of hundred meters (yards) over cobblestones and across busy Piazza del Collegio Romano back to our office in 16th-century Palazzo Doria. There, three hungry male colleagues were awaiting their “pranzo” (lunch), to be eaten at their desks after delivery by myself and the other female reporte
Free the Italian Beach! (opens the original)
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This summer in Italy millions of beachgoers stretched out on chaise lounges that were shaded by giant umbrellas and lined up, barely an arm’s length apart, row after row after row, at government-licensed clubs swallowing up practically entire swathes of beach. Call me an outlier if you wish, but I wasn’t lying on any of those sunbeds. Thanks for reading Half Roman! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<in
Italy's Law & Order Summer (opens the original)
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Italian far-right politicians are embracing a law-and-order campaign mantra this summer, no matter that there’s no date yet for the next election.Enflaming their passions is a ruling by Italy’s top criminal court upholding the conviction of, and nearly 15-year prison sentence for, a jewelry store owner who fatally shot two robbers and wounded a third in the street as they fled his shop in the northern Piedmont region. Thanks for reading Half Roman! Subscribe for free to receive new
A Tomato Stem in Rome Takes Me Back to New York (opens the original)
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In Italian produce markets, the fruits and vegetables aren’t always so prettified, as they often are in grocery stores or supermarkets in the United States.Oh, they might be attractively arranged — say, cauliflower heads in cream-colored, violet or pale orange hues stacked in neat rows. But often the vegetables look as if they were picked only yesterday — and sometimes that’s the case. Thanks for reading Half Roman! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my
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