HeyJaredSimposio — Food, Rituals & Lived Italy
Each week, I invite you to a timeless symposium where food opens the door to stories, rituals, and conversation. Drawn from my published Simposio cookbooks, these seasonal pieces carry you through Italy’s hidden corners — one course at a time.
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Venetian Women (part I) & Sgroppino (opens the original)
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This week’s story comes from Venice’s Simposio, a journey through a city of opulence, contradictions, legends, food, and an almost stubborn sense of freedom. It moves through winter and summer, Carnival and quiet evenings, courtesans and Casanova, bacari and old cafés, following Venetian culture into the kitchen through dishes like sarde in saor, risi e bisi, bigoli in salsa, baccalà mantecato, zaleti, and many others. It is my attempt to look beyond the crowds and recover that parallel, enchant
The Wild Man & Hazelnut Oil Cookies (opens the original)
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From Alba & Langhe’s Simposio! .../Good morning!How did you sleep?Isn’t it wonderful to wake up, open the window, and realize you are breathing pure air—the purest you’ve experienced in a long, long time? And that all you can see outside is an infinite stretch of vines?You, my lucky friend, have woken up in the Langhe region: two hundred kilometers of vineyards, hazel groves, hills, perched villages, and hard-working people. A
The Borgias (Part V) and Fettuccine Alla Papalina (opens the original)
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From the Papal Rome Simposio! The Borgias (Part V)… continues from last week.Cesare Borgia was not a saint. Not that he wanted to be one. His only obsession, it would appear, was power.The reasons? Maybe because he was the “bastard” of the pope, maybe because the syphilis had defaced him when he was only twenty, or maybe because we all have experienced at some point that feeling that assures us that
The Borgias (Part IV) and Involtini di Carne (opens the original)
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From the Papal Rome Simposio! The Borgias (Part IV)… continues from last week.Rodrigo’s nemesis was Girolamo Savonarola, a Florentine preacher who accused the Curia of... well, what actually happened. His response, though, was bigotry, subjugation, and cancellation of any vanity and beauty.If asked, I’d be on Alessandro’s side; there’d be freedom, at least. A gift only a few would levera
The Borgias (Part III) and Ricotta Gelato (opens the original)
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From the Papal Rome Simposio! The Borgias (Part III)… continues from last week.I was raised in a family where everything that happened in the world had to be filtered through economic lenses. Nothing we read or saw on the news was to be believed: it was just the starting point for the research of the real, hidden, economic reasons. Sometimes logically deducted, most often gleaned by our instincts. Although gifting us a plentiful d
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