🌽🍅 Unveiling Rome's Vibrant Fresh Markets! 🇮🇹 Embrace Roman Customs & Culture through Food Marke

Hi my name is Julia Gonzalez and I welcome you to my channel. If you've never been here before I love to travel to explore different cultures and amazingly delicious foods. This week we're in Rome. I'm gonna bring you along on a local market tour where we'll visit three amazing markets you must check out when visiting Rome. Welcome to the central market in Rome. Located just outside the Termini terminal the market is home to about 16 stalls that include a variety of amazing foods from pizza to maritozzi. It's hard to choose what to start with but there's plenty of choices for you to explore and enjoy. All right so this is the maritozzo. Maritozzi is a sweet Italian bun that are fluffy and light evenly split and then filled with fresh delicate whipped cream and dusted with powdered sugar. All right so now we have the souffle, rice, tomato sauce and basil. Oh and cheese. Friends here. Hi. I didn't see you get soup yet. So these are called rapacinos. It's like a pizza for your whatever you get inside. So this is a meatball. Oh so flavorful. Here's the chicken one and the meat. We got some this looks like a sausage. Sausage, pancetta and steak. Okay I'm starting with the chicken. It's very flavorful. I think I really like the out of everything I really like the sausage. Lovely lady who helped me down the stairs to get this. Well that was absolutely delicious. The market is so much fun because you can try a little bit of everything and after getting a little lost in the tunnels at the train station we finally found our way to Italy. Italy opened in 2012 in the old Onstiense station terminal in Rome. It's a store organized to look like an outdoor market. People describe Italy as an Italian gastronomic megastore with 40 stores worldwide. This one is the largest in the world at 170,000 square feet on four sprawling floors. They have several eateries, cooking classes, on-site beer and cheese making and 14,000 products for sale. Italy stands for eating Italian which encompasses the history and the food culture of Italy. Most Italians don't use Italy as their everyday grocery store and after visiting the store I can understand why. It's just completely overwhelming. It's fun to visit and it's great to pick up those specially hard to find items or take a class, dine at one of the restaurants. It's an overall adventure for sure. We headed over to one of the many restaurants housed in Italy. It was nice to sit down and relax and enjoy some yummy Italian made sandwiches. So if you're interested in visiting the store but a little intimidated about doing it alone, check out Greenline Tours. We noticed a group coming into the store while we were there. Okay so we're heading over to the pistachio market. Carol keeps thinking I'm saying pistachio. I am So we're heading over. It's a local market where a lot of locals do their local shopping for their local produce but it's also like where students go and pick up food in between classes. So super excited to try some local dishes and show you around. Just across the river from the bustling and popular Travestevi area lies Tistachio, a small Roman neighborhood with a quirky history and a big foodie scene. The Tistachio market has a long history dating back to the 2nd century AD. It was in the 1930s that a wealthier middle class inhabitants gradually moved into the neighborhood, thus slowly transforming the atmosphere of Tistachio. Along with the slaughterhouse came the cattle market. This was naturally a hub of local life and street food for workers and buyers alike. It was here that those who had worked at the market or slaughterhouse would take off cuts of meat home to feed their families. Local inn owners whipped up hearty meals using the meat, initiating a new sort of Roman cuisine. The district became known for its foodie credentials throughout the city with the market being the place to go and pick up delicious foods. The slaughterhouse was in operation until the 1970s. The market however was moved in 2012 to a new premise as the older premises had become a bit dilapidated. The new market was a purpose-built structure. The idea behind the construction was to mirror the layout of the Roman's open-air markets that take place in the piazzas of the city. So we're starting here for some souple from the food box. So I clearly ordered way too much. I guess I ordered two of each. So I got the cache de pepe and I got the classic. So let's give them a try. It's so good. Okay so here's the classic. It's got cheese. It's basically a rice ball with cheese and deep fried. It's really hot because he just made them. You like the regular one? I like the cheese in it. It has basil, tomato. Yeah cheese, basil, tomato, rice, tomato sauce. He didn't speak any. I think that's something that you have to consider when coming here is you should know a little bit of Italian. He understood what I was saying. I just ordered too much by accident. Next up known for their yummy sandwiches we hit up Morty and Davai. All right so we went with the meatball. The meatball is so full of flavor and that bun is like so fresh and amazing around it. Lastly what I liked about the Testasio market is they also have stalls selling home goods and clothing which is different from the other markets we've seen. Okay so that was really yummy. Super great market. If you really want to be embraced in like the local culture this is the place to go. I'd recommend knowing a little bit of Italian. Check it out. That concludes this week's episode. Hopefully you enjoyed the tours of the local markets here in Rome. We'll have more coming from our stay in Rome. And until next time, get out! There's a whole world you deserve to see.