
The history of Rome traced through food and its conduits, followed by Fritz’s gorgeous installations of aperitifs & dinner in roof tiles moving the crowd from orto to cortile, lit by a chandelier of twig & leaf, Mona finally sitting down to eat with us: and having through it all to come face to face [...]

The fine art of orecchiette-rolling and -inverting as demonstrated by Gio’s acquainted hands, and attendant fantasies of Canadian peace armies inspired in one boy’s dissident shaping of gnocchi: “pasta always leads to politics,” says Miles—apparently also to psychology, and to art.