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Sicily Journal V: Gelato
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Photo: Hallie Cohen |
Only in Rome can you get out of the Metro at
Piazza Dante and be told to take a right on Machivelli (by the way the subway
stop is Vittorio Emanuele). You might then go to Via Petrarca 3 and eat at
Trattoria da Danilo. Take another right out of the restaurant and then take
your third right and you will come to a half block long store front on Via
Principe Eugenio with Palazzo del Freddo inscribed at the top and then
Gelateria Giovanni Fassi, under which is Roma, Seoul, Shanghai, and above in
English “1880, the oldest Italian Gelato factory.” The Sicilian Procopio die Coltelli was reputedly one of the first purveyors of this manna for ice cream lovers , but Fassi's expansion is truly globalization for a
gelateria that was started in l907! You get two scoops with panna, the Italian
whipped cream for 3 Euros, which is cheap by Italian gelato standards. Walking
back to Dante to get the Metro, you pass stops named Flaminia, Lepanto and
Ottavian. The Rome Metro is a fairly new invention, but those stops have could
have easily been the names of characters in some Shakespeare play, say you took
a right or left at Seneca before reaching Dante and Machiavelli
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