Festival of cecamariti
Festival of cecamariti

Rocca Canterano. Festival of cecamariti

The third Sunday of august, the festival of the cecamariti of Rocca Canterano celebrates one of the typical dishes of Roman cuisine.

Legend has it that this dish takes name from the fact that, for the ease and speed of preparation it would serve to dazzle their husbands into believing that poor wives had been home a long time busy in the kitchen, when in fact they had been involved in other "chores".

The "cecamariti" (make husbands blind) is a pasta made of wheat flour and corn topped with tomato sauce, garlic and chilli.


Written by:
Benedicta Lee

Born in Rome from an Italian mother and American father, she works as a freelance communications manager and designer in the tourism sector, a career and interest which she is pursuing with a...

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