Comments on: Ponte Milvio Market, Rome

By: Marianne

Marianne — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:32:14 +0000

Hey MarketMan,

You’ve been featuring place I grew up around or knew of! And it makes me sigh with nostalgia. I was born in Rome and I lived there for 17 years, but I have back in Manila with my family since the early 90s.

Ponte Milvio was where we did our Saturday grocering, year after year. I wonder if the Pizza al taglio place, where we got the best pizza margherita and pizza bianca is still there on the square. We bought our fruits, vegetables, and flowers there, some seafood when it was good, bread from the Alimentari… and then grabbed a quick coffee before rushing home to cook.

My skills as a cook are belated, but I credit my knowledge of cuisine to growing up and traveling around Europe throughout my childhood.

Keep the entries coming, MM! One of these days, do try making a radicchio risotto with a bottle of Barolo and bone marrow! Or have you already? As for artichokes…one of these days, if I spot them again in Santis I’ll buy some, bake them with olive oil, herbs (de provence, hahaha) and bread crumbs, and eat it in your honor. :)

Cheers!

By: izang

izang — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:18:01 +0000

pinolian?!!!……herherher…nice one…

write the book, MM…..i’ll be the first in line…..

By: millet

millet — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:03:08 +0000

have never seen such good-looking assortment of pears before!

By: lee

lee — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:36:50 +0000

Ask the Pinoy housekeepers and cooks if they ever tried serving spaghetti with banana ketchup and hotdog bits to the Italians. Harhar

By: fried-neurons

fried-neurons — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:14:42 +0000

Wow! Those are some awesome pictures, MM! I’m generally not a big veggie eater, but whenever I go to a market with produce that beautiful, I end up “eating like a rabbit” for days on end.

As for radicchio… pretty but yucky. I don’t like the bitter taste at all.

By: NYCMama

NYCMama — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:40:17 +0000

Reading your posts is like hearing my inner self speaking! I did the same thing in Rome, taking pictures, admiring the produce, not buying much, and did the same thing in Amsterdam, and England, and Mexico, and Peru…. My husband and I really should take a vacation where we have access to a kitchen. When you stay at a hotel, all you can do is make tulo-laway with the produce! The fruits we buy, and the hubby always packs a Swiss army knife in the luggage for such purposes! One time we bought too many blood oranges, and on the plane on the way home, I remembered them… and made the hubby eat them (Sayang!) instead of letting it be confiscated by customs! We did not learn our lesson, and did the same thing while driving back from Canada..loaded with unfinished lansones and atis from the Thai grocery..pulled over the side, and ate the last of it before getting to the border!