Fried Apples
This is a snack that I often ate in winter at my grandmother Irene’s house. My grandmother used two Italian cooking books as culinary Bibles:...
26 October 2019
The Roman people are greedy for fruit. In the family of my father, they did not get up from the table without having first eaten the fruit.
My grandfather Gigi told me that World War II was horrible also because “we have not eaten oranges for years!” My grandmother Violetta used to tease me with the names of sweet fruits.
Being great fruit eaters comes directly from our ancestors. The ancient Romans always had, and in large quantities, fruit on their tables. They had many varieties of fruit and even in the same species they used to cultivate plurality: they had as many as 38 varieties of pears!
Seneca magnified bread with figs as the maximum culinary pleasure. The addition by modern Romans was to include also prosciutto!
The list that I report is mainly preserved fruit and some fruit desserts that my mother use to make for our family dinners.