Who'd have thought...

...that one of the most exciting things about moving to Rome would be, wait for it, the broccoli. Seriously, it's ace. We're talking Romanesco Broccoli of course - that's Brassica oleracea for those of you with a veg patch (which is all of you!). It's like chameleon eyes and fractals and all those tricks. To be honest, it's actually a variety of cauliflower - that weird boring white stuff best covered in cheese - but it's green, and so broccoli in our eyes.
Anyway, we've been eating a lot of it...


And tonight, to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, we ate our broccoli with schnitzel, or 'Cotoletta alla Milanese' as they call it in these parts, since the Milanese are basically Germans/Austrians anyway.