Rome Book V scrapbook image

Rome Book V
Rome, Italy
ca. 1980s
The writer collaged restaurant receipts, bar bills, coasters, and cafe napkins, and also logged the lunches and dinners consumed. This dinner of February 25, 1983, took place at Il Cantinone, a Sardinian restaurant in Rome. It consisted of artichokes, a pasta course with clams; roast suckling pig, broccoli, and Sardinian sweets. The writer has drawn a section of a sweet filled with orange marmalade. A long arrow suggests a climactic entry on the following page (not shown), where the writer has collaged the wrappers of a Sardinian candy called "Rau" — Sardinian dialect for the "sigh" sound.

From the collection of Elatia Harris.

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A must-do when on foreign soil that Elatia obeys: jot down every morsel and draught consumed and then add drawings like Da Vinci, if possible. Grazie.
posted on 07.10.09 by Randolyn



just the idea of this and Italy makes my heart sigh
thank you
posted on 07.13.09 by maryann terillo



I have fond childhood memories of a restaurant located near Porto Cervo in Sardinia called "Il Cantinone".
posted on 07.21.09 by lisa blaustein













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