A little slice of heaven...

<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My beautiful apartment here in Civita happens to be directly over a wonderful restaurant, Alma Civita, and under that, are Etruscan caves.  I wish I could eat there every day, but on Sunday, I heard about an amazing dessert, so the next day, I went downstairs, sat at a table, and had nothing but dessert and caffe latte.  Pure heaven, I was literally in a trance as I savored every morsel.</span><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day, as I called down from my window to say hello, Maria the amazing chef of this family business (they must be the hardest working people in Italy) who works wonders in a tiny kitchen with a real, wood burning fireplace stove, offered me another piece, saying it had been made fresh that day.  Made with fresh eggs from their farm, etc.  She disappeared, then a few minutes later, I heard a knock on my door, and her lovely smiling face held out a plate with yet another slice of heaven.  I had to document it for posterity, and here it is in my window, the one I leaned out to say buon giurno...</span><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~~Alma Civita's Orange and Rosemary Tiramisu...dessert of the gods.</span><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT0ifV-EQfPBhQsW-mQX7H0ubO8hi2zm84j3aqlg_tjCqcJkkLt5TdBHPEYsL5cl8hKD-7Hwi_pdrdTmdyZKnVOs3lTXwRi0_Un2SAa0iYnyY4mAIhRRomybKRlh47KKj4NxLJv03bTQU/s1600/Tiramisu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT0ifV-EQfPBhQsW-mQX7H0ubO8hi2zm84j3aqlg_tjCqcJkkLt5TdBHPEYsL5cl8hKD-7Hwi_pdrdTmdyZKnVOs3lTXwRi0_Un2SAa0iYnyY4mAIhRRomybKRlh47KKj4NxLJv03bTQU/s1600/Tiramisu.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caffe Latte with Maria's heavenly <br />orange and rosemary Tiramisu.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

A little slice of heaven...

My beautiful apartment here in Civita happens to be directly over a wonderful restaurant, Alma Civita, and under that, are Etruscan caves.  ...

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