I recently went to Rome for a meeting for a few days. I had never been to Italy before and have long had a love affair with the thought of Rome, so I was pretty excited. I knew I wouldn't have much time to see sights until the end of the trip, because I was working non stop. I was, of course, most looking forward to stuffing my face and gaining at least 5 pounds from eating pasta every meal, every day.
Unfortunately, I had a terrible stomach ache most of the time that I was there (I'll spare you the details), and barely had an appetite, and the jet lag didn't help. Finally on the last night, I wasn't exactly feeling better, but I was determined to enjoy myself a little bit. I think my boss felt bad for me, so she took me around to some of the sights and we did extremely touristy things, like eat pasta in front of the Pantheon, which I could barely stomach, but it was delicious... just spaghetti, pecorino romano and a lot of black pepper.
Then she took me to get this:
Tartufo... Suddenly I had an appetite. This was apparently a very chocolately version, but it was essentially, a frozen cherry covered in rich chocolate gelato, covered in some sort of pure chocolate ganache rolled in crushed pieces of dark chocolate, then frozen and topped with whipped cream and a little cookie straw.
It sounds like too much, because it was too much, but I ate basically all of it. I can't wait to go back to Italy and eat everything else!
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