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La Dolce Pizza: Rome's Best Slices
La Dolce Pizza: Rome's Best Slices

You can eat for an eternity in the eternal city which is why it’s so difficult to narrow down the best of the best. I’ve been to Rome four times now and the below pizzerias are the ones that keep me coming back.

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Food, Rome, Best OfAnna StaropoliMarch 29, 2020pizza, food, romeComment
A Lotta Gelato: My Top Picks For Rome
A Lotta Gelato: My Top Picks For Rome

Beaches are to ice cream as cobblestoned streets are to gelato, and there is certainly no shortage of this sweet treat in Rome.

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Best Of, Food, Rome, GelatoAnna StaropoliNovember 26, 2019Food, Gelato, Rome, Best OfComment
Pasta Time: The Best Of Rome's Culinary Pastime
Pasta Time: The Best Of Rome's Culinary Pastime

As a Jersey girl who's grown up with Italian parents, I have pretty high standards for the big three: pizza, pastries, and, of course, pasta.

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Best Of, Food, Pasta, RomeAnna StaropoliNovember 13, 2019food, rome, pasta, best ofComment
Everything You Need To Know About Roman Pasta
Everything You Need To Know About Roman Pasta

My cousin Settimo is a walking stereotype of every vivacious, vibrant, very, very loud Italian you can think of. Contributing to that stereotype, he's also an incredible cook.

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Best Of, Food, Rome, PastaAnna StaropoliSeptember 25, 2019Food, Rome, PastaComment
 

But when I tell him

how lucky he is to have seen the break

of dawn over the loveliest islands in the world,

he smiles at the memory, saying that when the sun rose,

the day was no longer young for them.

-South Seas, Cesare Pavese

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