Fried Foods Archive

Over the past six months or so, restaurants in Rome have been competing for the budget conscious lunch crowd by offering moderately priced prix fixe menus and plentiful buffets. It has always been easy to eat cheaply in Rome, where (more…)

When I go to fish restaurants in Turkey, I fill up on mezes and rakı, skipping the main dish altogether. On a recent visit to Kuyu in Arnavutköy with my friends Sarah and Emre, we started out with cold starters like white cheese with melon, (more…)

Confit de canard, salt cured duck poached in its own fat, is an ingenious way to preserve the bird while simultaneously amplifying the flavor of the meat. This may not sound like the healthiest dish but who cares? When something tastes this (more…)

Mamma Parla and I just got back from a quick trip up to the Cinque Terre, a rugged and mountainous stretch of Liguria’s coast. It was my first time visiting since a post-college graduation excursion in 2002. On my first trip, my friends and I rented a (more…)

From 1555 until 1870 Rome’s Jews were confined to a Ghetto by Papal decree. Though the Ghetto no longer stands (its buildings were demolished after Italian unification), visitors to Rome still come to the area to visit the community’s main (more…)