<\/a>As I sample fried zucchini flowers with anchovies and exquisite suppl\u00ec (fried rice balls) I saw at least a dozen people without reservations turned away. And then came the pizza. The fresh ingredients of the dough and the bufala mozzarella cheese from south of Salerno made it special but what really made the pizza stand out was the Corbarino tomatoes. These sweet, luscious jewels come from the foothills of Monti Lattari above Sorrento, and you can hear the sirens sing in every bite.<\/p>\nSo, what\u2019s not to love? Only this: Emma\u2019s is located above the ruins of the Portico of Pompey, perhaps a hundred yards from the spot where Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March. Unless you happen to be a historian of that assassination you surely wouldn\u2019t think of the blood shed that day with every bite of a gorgeous red tomato. Unfortunately, I am just such a historian. So, on this lovely day I remembered death.<\/p>\n
No one ever said Rome is just about holidays.<\/p>\n
Barry Strauss, author of the acclaimed book The Death of Caesar<\/em>, is in Italy researching and writing a book on Roman emperors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[235,234,232,19,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}