{"id":6082,"date":"2011-04-10T23:57:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T06:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2011-04-11T02:56:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T09:56:19","slug":"on-april-10th-2011-roma-mangia-roma-interview-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2011\/04\/10\/on-april-10th-2011-roma-mangia-roma-interview-7\/","title":{"rendered":"On April 10th, 2011, &#8216;ROMA MANGIA ROMA&#8217; INTERVIEW #7&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6083\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6083\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/2011\/04\/10\/on-april-10th-2011-roma-mangia-roma-interview-7\/2011-04-10-p1200482\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6083\" title=\"Roman terrace\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2011-04-10-P1200482-266x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2011-04-10-P1200482-266x150.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2011-04-10-P1200482.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">his terrace overlooking the landscape of Villa Ada <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;of 35 planned interviews with five generations of people living in Rome (about how they organize their homes and lives around food, their memories and current thoughts on Cucina Italiana\/Romana, and how things are changing) was a fascinating two hour conversation with a distinguished 92 year old Italian film director who recounted amazing tales of growing up in rural Italy where farmers went door to door selling their homemade goods, including a particular ricotta that he has a strong memory of &#8211; but mostly it was the aromas (rather &#8216;profumo&#8217; in Italian) he remembered, of the various lost foods which he can still smell, but no longer exist as they did when he was young &#8211; the tomatoes, the breads, the olive oils, the wines, the potatoes, the eggs &#8211; and then later stories of his early days in 1940&#8217;s Rome and the shock of all of the strong tastes that his Tuscan palate was not used to &#8211; but it was his off-hand remark &#8220;Quando mangio qualcosa buona, io sono pi\u00f9 buono&#8221; towards the end of the conversation that will stay with me. (a bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/garden\/initiatives\/edibleestates\/rome.html\" target=\"_blank\">more on the book<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of 35 planned interviews with five generations of people living in Rome (about how they organize their homes and lives around food, their memories and current thoughts on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[221,1723,235,1770,820,1759],"class_list":["post-6082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-food","tag-interview","tag-italy","tag-roma-mangia-roma","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6099,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions\/6099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}