San Teodoro Market, Rome

San Teodoro Farmers’ Market

On a hot spring day, what could be better than heading to the San Teodoro Farmers’ Market in Rome, right next door to the Circus Maximus, to bask in the delight and abundance of local produce?

It’s been running on weekends for the past couple of years, in connection with the Campagna Amica, in a quest to promote the consumption of low mileage local produce.

  

Cheese, cured meats, fresh meat, preserves, cakes and breads, spreads, olive oils, honeys, wine, beer, even ice cream: you name it! You will find everything you need to stock your pantry for the week. It’s a feast for the eyes and the senses.

Stealing the show at the moment the king of spring, the Romanesque Artichoke. When you’ll see the imposing displays, the walls of this majesty of the vegetable world, you will literally feel like bowing to it and reaching for a pot of ‘pinzimonio’ to dunk it in.

We bought fresh buffalo mozzarella at 10 euro per kilo, which was refreshing!, cured meat; tomatoes, bread, cake, a bottle of wine and headed towards the Aventine, just 10 minute walk away, where we settled down in Giardino degli Aranci (The Orange Grove), by the Basilica of Santa Sabina, for a lazy pic-nic.