Take a tasting tour of Naples and Rome

March 2, 4:07 PMNY Culinary Travel ExaminerMary Warren

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ContextRome offers a tasting tour of Italy's great Southern capitals.

To understand and appreciate Italian cuisine is to undersand the historical context of the country itself. 

Context Rome, a small groups tour company which puts an emphasis on experiencing place, offers an eight-day adventure delving into the cuisines of Rome and Naples, the great cities of Southern Italy.  The tour, limited to 8, explores the most influential cuisine emerging from Italy in the 20th century and is led by culinary historians, chefs, food writers, sommeliers and other experts.

From Rome's fried zucchini flowers to Naples' rum-soaked baba', from the dietary habits of ancient Romans to today' s Slow Food movement , this tour is designed to whet the appetite, inspire the imagination and inform the soul. . Revealed through food s and culture is "a portrait of this most exceptional and important corner of the Mediterranean."

Tour Highlights

• annotated meals with food historians
• visits to Ostia Antica, Pompeii, and the Naples Archaeolgical Museum to explore the roots of Roman and Neapolitan food
• tour of Testaccio market in Rome with a noted chef, followed by a cooking lesson in her home
• seminar on Roman Jewish cuisine at a restaurant in the Jewish Ghetto
• special after hours visit to the Villa Farnesina in Rome for a discussion of aristocratic dining rituals
• wine tasting at Casa Bleve, Rome's most important enoteca, for a wine and food pairing led by a sommelier
• pizza making workshop in Naples
• evening dinner cruise on the Bay of Naples aboard a private sailing sloop
• tour of Naples' greatest markets, bakeries, and specialty food purveyors with insiders

For more info:   www.contexttravel.com/rome