of people hacking away at rome s favorite vegetable. so show me the artichokes. as i have been finding out with roman food, you sometimes have to dig a little to get the good stuff. this is where the [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ]. once trimmed, they can be deep-fried to make one of my all-time roman foods, jewish fried artichokes. ask anyone here and they will tell you that this weird looking vegetable is a definitive roman food. thank you so much. ciao, ciao. what i love is that under those rough outer leaves, it contains an entire history, a story of how societies outcasts can change the habits of an entire city.
they just make sense in the cuisine today. sarah gets her scalpel into some beefheart and we take a seat in the dining room. what is that? [ speaking foreign language ] it is really an unusual texture too, isn t it? so let s break down what the offal are. we have heart, liver, lungs, stomach, brain, sweetbreads, intestines, snout, cartilaginous pieces of the face. the whole head, really, if you think of it. if posta is the first pillar of roman of food, the astonishing use of offal is definitely the second. somehow, romans turning these promising cuts into pure culinary poetry. [ speaking foreign language
i have been promised the best carbonara in the city and i have been told to come to the working class back streets behind the station and to ask for the don. tell me what you do. i impersonate a popular food and for a long time, a made a show where i played vinyl music on the disc as a dj? yes, but at the same time, i cooked pasta as a grandma. danielle de michele is a chef who cooks food while spinning records and his stage name is don pasta. this is really fantastic, i was pretending for the audience that i did not look no but why lie?
is bombing. this particular square was home to a hugely popular [ speaking foreign language ] during the war and all of the family died after the bombing. after the war, the local community raised funds for a surviving father and son to open the restaurant and the boy started work at age 8. amazingly, he is still here today. this is the story of roman food. beautiful. although alto runs the restaurant with his daughter, rosanna, people come from the city and even further to enjoy the come first comfort of all those food periods [ speaking foreign language ] tell me about carbonara.
now been attacked like this here, including a pizza place and this jazz bar. the police still have not found who is responsible. because alexandra hosted community events at the cafe including antifascist talks, suspicion has fallen on the far right but others blame local criminals protecting their old turf or anti-gentrification campaigners. is this happening in other parts of rome too? no. [ speaking foreign language ] no, not rome. terrible. one change happens, romans resist, but whoever did this has made it dangerous to sell food and it seems brutal to attack restaurants and cafes in this city that is as united in its love of eating together.