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Oct 22, 2026 - Lifestyle

This dish of chicken in a lipsmacking citrus and oregano sauce has been handed down through many generations of Roman restaurateursIf you look through the window of Piatto Romano between 10am and midday, there will almost certainly be two, maybe three people at the round table trimming vegetables: chicory, artichokes, poppy greens, amaranth. After midday, the crates and trimmings will have been cleared away and the table will now be home to trays of bright-green boiled vegetables and, maybe, baked salt cod. By 12.30pm, everything will have been moved into the small kitchen in time for service, which starts at 12.45pm.When I first moved to Rome in 2005, Via Bodoni 62 was home to a restaurant called Da Rafaelle, which had white plastic chairs (inside as well) and served traditional Roman food with plenty of offal. We went to Da Rafaelle a few times before it closed in 2009. But, mostly, we went to La Torricella, which is on the other side of Testaccio and serves mainly fish. The owner is Augusto D’Alfonsi and, during lunch one day, he mentioned that he was taking over via Bodoni 62, and that his daughter Francesca would run it. They’d serve traditional Roman food with plenty of offal and it would be called Piatto Romano. This was 2011. My son was born later that year and my memories are not unpleasantly foggy; of the vegetable trolley in the corner, of chicken with red peppers and of Francesca and her father negotiating strongly. I also remember Francesca’s brother, Andrea, starting to be around more, before he eventually took over in late 2013. Continue reading...

Oct 22, 2026 - Lifestyle

Sundays were deadly, the generation gap between parents and their kids was enormous, and a pint cost 50p. The frisson of casual violence was everywhere. When I left school and set off to travel, I had no sense at all of where I was going or what I would findI am wandering down a steep and unfamiliar street in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, a force seven gale blowing in my face, when I look up to cross the road and see a back garden running up the hillside opposite. It ends in a granite rock face about 30ft high, and in that moment, I have a vivid flashback to being sat on top of it, watching a group of people in the garden below. I can’t conjure their faces, but the memory is all too real: the sun on my face, a woman calling up: “Don’t break your neck!” I can tell she’s not worried and neither am I. Nobody is. It’s a party and we’re young and we’re drunk and we’re carefree, without a worry in the world. Or at least, that’s how I remember it.I continue down the street, spooked by the power of the recollection, how it has ambushed me. I stand outside the house. I could swear I’ve never seen it before. Did I come to the party over the cliff? Should I knock on the door? Hi, this is going to sound weird but I was in your back garden about 42 years ago and I haven’t a clue why but I’ve just remembered it like it was yesterday … Continue reading...

Oct 22, 2026 - Lifestyle

As Karl Marx sat at his desk decades before the invention of the automobile, the German philosopher could scarcely have imagined that his ideas would fuel a revolution in America’s service departments in 2026. As Chris Collins and his “Service Drive Revolution” co-hosts, Adam Krey and Chris Hogland, note on a recent episode of their […] The post Is 2026 the Year of Service Drive Socialism? appeared first on Grit Daily News.

Oct 21, 2026 - Lifestyle

Dr. Leo Lapuerta, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Houston, Texas, explains why skin does not shrink back after major weight loss, what body contouring surgery can fix, and when to have it. The scale finally says the number. The clothes fit. And then, somewhere in the first few months, a different realization arrives. The weight […] The post Loose Skin After Weight Loss: A Houston Plastic Surgeon’s Guide appeared first on Grit Daily News.

Oct 21, 2026 - Lifestyle

Anyone who has spent any amount of time online has witnessed how quickly a crisis can escalate for enterprise brands. Anything from a data breach to a leadership controversy to a viral complaint on social media can quickly damage a company’s reputation and attract scrutiny  from customers, partners, stakeholders, and the general public. Choosing the […] The post Why Brands Trust Otter PR as a Crisis Communications Agency appeared first on Grit Daily News.