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Today Pizzarium, Gabriele Bonci’s famed pizza al taglio joint, had its grand reopening on Via della Meloria in Rome. The shop, which has been closed for the last month, has undergone complete remodeling. (more…)

Gabriele Bonci is one of Rome’s most famous and influential bakers (though he himself would tell you that it is his maestro Franco Palermo who really counts). Bonci’s Pizzarium is among the city’s premier boutique pizzerias, selling pizza al taglio from a small storefront next to the (more…)

Campofilone’s tagliolini with white truffles at Roscioli.

My friend Şemsa, chef and owner of Kantin in Istanbul made her first trip to Rome this week. When I found out she was coming for five days, I immediately began making a list of the essential places any chef, cook, food writer, or gastronome should visit while in Rome. It was (more…)

Lasagna pizza at La Gatta Mangiona.

Naples may be Italy’s pizza capital, but Rome has greater variety to offer. There’s the classic Roman pie (round, flat and thin with a crispy crust), the ever popular and usually quadrilateral pizza al taglio (pizza by the slice), and now there are a growing number of boutique pizzerias (more…)

The Oxford Companion to Italian Food defines pizza as “a flattened lump of bread dough, usually round, flavored with whatever comes to hand–oil, cheese, herbs, or onion–and cooked in a hot wood-fired oven.” I’m with the author for the first third of (more…)