Ciceri e Tria ...
... at Alle due Corti. The cakey bread was quite blah, but was still better than most Balkan bread! This pasta dish smelled AMAZING, almost with an aroma of a delicious plate of fresh seafood.
The noodles were a bit like a fat fettuccine, with the contrast of half the pasta being fried and the other half boiled, setting off the dish. A very complex but simple sauce of chickpeas, onions, and garlic - thick and hearty, but not heavy - perhaps not the best dish for 40 C weather, but they had A/C in the restaurant! The sauce had the sweetness that you'd find in Asian broths that have been boiled for hours.
Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more 
