Inside Rome’s Everyday Life | Walking, Eating, and Living the City Slowly

Since it's a very quiet neighborhood with plenty of greenery it's a great place to live The weather's nice and we're all doing well it's a neighborhood where at least 90% of the time we all know each other e children because as we've grown up together we've all come to know each other a little even if no You're on friendly terms though you do know him you greet people And she's lived here since she was born always here in Garbatella Yes How was your day What did you do during the day Well I'm grown up now Oh well I used to go to work Now after now I'm alive I go out in the morning take the dog for a walk sometimes we go hunting then we return You grab a drink at the bar and an aperitif head home and make it back in time for the evening to catch up with friends And what about you What do you have for your aperitif I'll have the Campanisota Beer No I drink the beer and pour it closed He'd live there I don't think he'd live anywhere else but Garbatella No no absolutely not And we grew up right here—how do you even do that The other neighborhoods just don’t compare there’s simply no comparison And what's the most beautiful thing about Garbatella Is it a feeling—what she senses when she's here The beauty of Garbatella is that when you walk through these arches you see everything These houses and trees houses and flowers houses and trees where the skyscrapers and grand palaces stand—do you understand Since she was born have I been living here My parents used to live here but unfortunately they're no longer here and I've stayed on I'll never leave this place never and then never again The story of Garbatella is too beautiful It's peaceful here so calm truly serene—let 's go now we might as well go in the evening Not at all—I'm proud to have been born and raised right here in Garbatella It's as if each lot were a neighborhood within a neighborhood each with its own family Yes each lot And as for the stars we've seen plenty of places with well-kept gardens Yes yes well they’re here gardeners come once a week apart from me and my nephew We'll clean up this mess ourselves Why is it called Garbatella Garbatella because this girl named Garba was beautiful and over the years they added the Garbatella Stay away from that old biker guy—don’t you dare take the fruit he’s holding one bite and you’ll be swinging I transfer art onto the aircraft so art travels across the globe gifting a plane so the one who receives it—Argentina Boltavia Brazil—takes it along with them and brings it to me To fly with him my art took flight—and the man was carried away by the plane We're here at my grandfather's house around 1940 and this is where my family's life unfolds who has lived like this ever since and still continues in this trade Is this a typical day here at the bakery then We arrive in the morning start tidying up a bit getting things in order taking a look at what needs to be done what's missing we start production we make the tarts the ricotta cakes we do what you see around me—almond cookies hazelnut cookies shortbread— The wine-soaked ring-shaped cookies the little puff pastries and all sorts of other treats Here we are Checco and the cart driver a historic restaurant that has existed for 35 years and still wants to keep going because we have the fourth generation and perhaps even a fifth is coming so we're not giving up—we believe the best is yet to come My grandfather started this business with my grandmother then my father carried it on and now we're here Now we have the daughters Enco rather Checco and then our own daughters will come And those who wish to keep going because this is a place that can never end are part of my roots My grandfather in the 1950s had dealings with the sweet life all the movie stars Americans from Hollywood came in here and my grandfather if you'd like to go see him Somewhere you find him embracing here such a beautiful woman who used to come to accompany the children of the moment In this photo my father is wearing a suit from the cinema because my father and Sergio Leone came with him The famous photo the one with Muhammad Ali Robert De Niro Sergio Leone Giorgio Marcus and Gianni Vinacce My grandfather transported wine starting in 1935 my grandmother was a skilled cook a true culinary artist from family gatherings because back then there were extended families so my grandfather would have lunch with us They had 20 meals for lunch and 20 at dinner at home because the extended family was gathered And anyway it was my grandmother who was always in the kitchen cooking This misfortune happened to me and my grandfather immediately said "Oh you cook so well—now we just need to find out " So returning once again to the American audience I’m often told that the best place is where They ate in Italy not even in Rome and then they said it was the best but I had no idea Because I'm a Roman a bit stubborn like a true Roman As for how to express it I don't know—what I do in the kitchen is just instinctive Honestly I'm the one in charge of the kitchen—me not a chef just the family cook I keep doing what my grandmother did—anyone who comes here eats the way food used to be eaten At my place as is the current trend I couldn't care less about fashion that's the truth It's hard now because after everything he told me I don't know what to choose The artichoke is my favorite thing in the world—I’d live in Rome just for the artichokes There's a quote from Alberto Sordi that says "Spaghettù you provoked me in Montemagno " He also gave me another spaghettù this one has a carriage I can't tell you which one I like the first one better but the best part is that I like both My name is Camillo and I make bed frames What did your job involve Building frames Mattress frames Yes this is the job How long has this shop been open My great-grandfather was here since 1870 but we only started talking a few years back I'm the fourth generation and my son is the fifth who instead opened a shed outside But if someone wants a mattress and a bed frame would she make those for them Of course I'll do it but right now I'm stuck here doing nothing else Brandine did you see those that close up and get pushed to the side It needs to be adjusted a bit to fit today's times No they're still the same ones I used to make fifty years ago though they don't wear out much these days So we're in Testaccio one of Rome's most distinctive neighborhoods known for its proximity to From the slaughterhouse then the Meat Center opened in 1890 comes a restaura We've been making Roman cuisine for 138 years rooted in our proximity to the slaughterhouse My family precisely for five generations—and six if you count my grandson who represents the newest generation— This restaurant is run by us—right now it's just my brother my sister and me with my brother working in the kitchen my sister handles administration and desserts while I manage the dining room service and a bit of Informatica And why is it called Testaccio Because the restaurant is carved right into the hillside ere is a hill made of terracotta shards constructed from the fragments of Roman amphorae They were used to transport food supplies to Rome during the Roman Empire Subtitles created by the community Amara org