First of all, we need to clean the clams properly and we need a couple of hours to do so. Start by tapping each one on a cutting board and look for dark sand traces. If any, throw away the clam as it will probably be full of sand and will ruin our sauce. Remove also the broken ones.

Roma caput Mundi. Or at least this was happening in ancient times, but as for today, we can agree that, in terms of food, Rome is still a real capital of the world. 
The list of dishes typical of the area and that have become flags of the Italian cuisine around the world is truly endless. The most famous? Yep, that’s it: Spaghetti alla Carbonara, a classic that never stops to amaze both DOC Italians and not.

It's a tradition with very ancient roots that take us back in Milan, Italy in 1400 where the myth tells about a modest servant employed as an assistant baker at Ludovico Il Moro's court. On the very night of Christmas Eve, with the palace full of aristocratic guests, the head baker burned the cake. While panic was spreading in the kitchen, Toni, the modest assistant, decide to rescue the situation and starts to knead what it initially seemed to be a simple bread.

One of these pillars are soups; they are the expression of the most ancient cuisine tradition, considered the emblem of a “modest dish”. The variety of soups in Italian cuisine depends on regional traditions and the local products offered by the territory. The most widespread are the ones where vegetables are the protagonist, but along the peninsula, we can find many other variations that make seafood and mussels, or even meat, the key ingredient.

Tarts, pies, cakes, biscuits are all part of an extended variety of typical Italian sweets that could never be missed out as a morning start, a little snack in the afternoon or as an after dinner indulgence. Italian pastry making is strongly rooted in regional traditions and it's usually handed down from one generation to another. With time, they are usually enriched or slightly modified but without alter completely their true essence.