Food and Wine of Rome Lazio Italy - Travel Guide & Information

This description page of Rome in the Italian Region of Lazio Italy, will guide you in planning your trip to Italy and help you to find useful travel information about the Food & Wine of this Italian Region.

Food (Cibo)

The Eternal City has been a melting pot for foods from other places since the Roman legions began collecting recipes and provisions, and, in some cases, cooks, from the far reaches of the empire. As the national capital, Rome (Roma) has drawn culinary inspiration from Italian regions north and south, though most substantially from the home provinces of Lazio.

Roman menus feature spaghetti alla carbonara and bucatini'amatriciana, as well as tubes of rigatoni and penne. Fresh pasta may be flat as lasagne, rolled as cannelloni or cut in strips as the celebrated fettuccine al burro. Gnocchi from potatoes or durum wheat semolino are also popular around the region, as are polenta and rice. Or try a coda alla vaccinara, a famous oxtail dish which is braised in tomatoes and flavored with pine nuts, raisins, and cocoa.

Romans adore abbacchio, milk-fed lamb roasted for Easter feasts though delicious year round. They also eat their share of beef and veal and pork is prized as porchetta, roasted by butchers in the Castelli Romani and sliced warm for sandwiches at the 's street markets.

The Jewish community has influenced the entire city, with its whole artichokes cooked in hot oil until tender (carciofi alla giudia) and salt cod fillets (filetti di baccala).

Rome (Roma) is noted for gelato, Lenten raisin buns called maritozzi, cream-filled pastries called bignè, rum-soaked fruit and nut cake called pan giallo, and a custard cake drenched with syrupy liqueurs known as zuppa inglese (thoug's neither soup nor English). The 's coffee bars are famous for espresso from freshly roasted beans. Meals often end with a glass of sweet sambuca liqueur, sipped with three coffee beans to munch on.

If you’re searching for “fast food,” most areas in Rome (Roma) will have a selection of pizza al taglio outlets. Buy your slice of pizza or a suppli (a Roman snack consisting of rice and mozzarella fried together in a chewy ball).

Wine (Vino)

Rom's region is intrinsically linked to white wine, to Frascati and Marino and the other golden-hued wines of the Castelli Romani, as well as to the fabled Est! Est!! Est!!! from the northern Lazio town of Montefiascone.

The ancient Romans drank white wines, too, though Horace and company reserved their greatest praise for the red Falernian and Caecuban, which were grown along the coast in southern Lazio and Campania. Although white wine accounts for an overwhelming share of the re's production, certain of its red wines seem more convincing to connoisseurs.

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