World peace, sustainable agriculture, and food for all are top priorities on Pope Leo XIV’s agenda.
The only eyewitness account of the two-day eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD handed down to us are two letters written by Pliny the Younger, a Roman lawyer, magistrate and author and sent to the historian Tacitus some 25 years after the disaster.
The bio at the back of her latest book ROME: A culinary history, cookbook, and field guide to the flavors that built a city says: “Katie Parla is a New York Times bestselling author, publisher andpodcast host, journalist, culinary guide, and educator based in Rome.
Confetti are traditionally almonds from Avola, a town in Sicily’s province of Syracuse, encased in a hard bite-size outer shell of sugar.
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