Pizza Ebraica (Sweet Roman-Jewish “Pizza”)

If you’ve been to the Jewish Ghetto in Rome, you might have come across Pizza Ebraica before. For those unfamiliar, Pizza Ebraica isn’t pizza at all. It’s actually a kind of cookie – a rather large cookie! Pizza Ebraica is a specialty from the Roman-Jewish culinary repertoire. (Which is a treasure trove of delectable delights!) It is a very rustic cookie, filled with nuts, raisins, candied fruit, oil, white wine, flour, almond flour and little else. It is surprisingly delicious. Pizza Ebraica (Ebraica meaning Hebrew) is one of those dishes that I had read about before traveling to Rome and … Continue reading Pizza Ebraica (Sweet Roman-Jewish “Pizza”)