Summer, sun sea colour, even in the kitchen we bring the same sensations with a simple pasta dish, but very tasty: spaghetti with anchovies and confit tomatoes. In this version I added two ingredients that enhance the scents of the sun and the countryside: confit cherry tomatoes and the breadcrumbs Read more…
Full summer: it’s time for new potatoes and I didn’t forget. Good cooked in every way the potato is potato. I make dumplings like those that Grandma Rosa used to make but with a small variation, I crush them. The choice for this dish is all local stuff: new potatoes Read more…
Finally summer! After a winter that seemed to never end, now the heat arrives and brings with it the desire for sea and … of course for Mediterranean cuisine. The dishes based on fish are the masters but not for this do you have to wait. At the Mercato del Read more…
In March the maritime village of Anzio wears joy to celebrate one of the craziest festivals of the year, the Carnival, with parades of allegorical themed floats and lots of activities for adults and children.
Croutons with anchovies is perhaps one of the cheapest but most loved dishes of the tradition of Anzio sea cuisine. Take slices of bread and toast them before putting the sauce on. Traditionally, bread was transformed into croutons by coating with oil or butter. The sauce comprises anchovies cooked with Read more…
Anzio’s portodanzese style fish soup is one of the typical dishes of this city made particularly tasty by the choice of fish directly from the boxes of fishermen at the port. The key elements of the soup are the polyps, cuttlefish, scorpion fish, weever fish, piper, the dogfish, gurnard and Read more…
The fried fish is a fry of small fish and the particularity of that of Anzio is the freshness of the fish just arrived in port on the fleet of fishing boats. The fish are rolled in flour and fried in plenty of olive oil. They are then dried on Read more…
The Schola Cantorum of Anzio is formed inside the church of the SS. Pio and Antonio to sing during the religious celebrations. Today it is a chorus formed by about twenty voices that organizes concerts throughout the year and includes both the chorus and a small orchestra of musicians with Read more…
Starting from the first weekend of July, in memory of the lucky landing of Innocent XII who, in order to save himself from a storm, landed at Anzio and took refuge among the ruins of Nero’s villa, Anzio organizes a series of historical and sporting events. The sporting events of Read more…
The third weekend of June in Anzio celebrates its patron Saint Anthony with a series of religious and food and wine events. The religious celebrations begin on Saturday evening with the solemn procession “by land and sea” where the statue of the saint is carried among the moorings accompanied by Read more…
