These are the two major food halls. The Mercati Generali was where a lot of produce would come in, so the government wanted to elongate the food supply or elongate the supply chain in order to generate all sorts of jobs along the way.
If you've ever seen that pyramidal tomb next to the Lido station, it's just past that very close to Eataly. The Mercati Generali was where farmers would bring in their goods, and then this wholesale market is where goods would be distributed to businesses, restaurants, and markets. Eventually, this huge complex became surrounded
we'll talk about momentarily. This is what the Mercati Generali looks like today. The building is this sort of wonderful example of decaying urban archeology.
to become a hygienic issue to have all this slaughter happening in town. So just like the Mercati Generali moved out of town, so, too, did the Mattatoio, or the slaughterhouse. And it starts to be repurposed after a period of decay, and today, you can walk through the ruins of the ex-Mattatoio,
Well, my home base is in Philadelphia, and that's kind of where we started, and so we have seven restaurants in Philadelphia. I have a restaurant in Chicago called Mercat A La Planxa. And this year, we did a big push, and we do the food and beverage management of two hotels, one in Scottsdale,
So maybe in a few years we'll know more. So while produce went into the Mercati Generali and then was distributed to restaurants and to marketplaces, animals would come in, instead, to Testaccio, which is not far from the Mercati Generali.
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So while produce went into the Mercati Generali and then was distributed to restaurants and to marketplaces, animals would come in, instead, to Testaccio, which is not far from the Mercati Generali. Testaccio now is a really popular destination for eating all sorts of carnivorous dishes, a lot of offal dishes.
The majority of Romans shop at supermarkets, but we have, especially people skewing towards the older end of the demographic spectrum, go to the Mercati Rionali. So there are about 125 of these markets in Rome.
This is the Nomentano Market, which was built during the fascist era, has these really wonderful sort of almost basilica-like aisled halls with light streaming in, and each of these stalls is often staffed by middlemen who go to the Mercati Generali or its analog, and then resell produce. So these aren't farmers' markets, but there is this custom in Rome of going to the markets and purchasing things that are from Italy.
So I like his places. And when I get to Chicago, I also-- right down the street from Mercat , which is located on the South loop, I go to kind of an English pub called the Gauge, which is just homey and a favorite.
In about 1925, you could actually go get freshly plucked chickens or recently slaughtered lambs. But now the food supply has really, really transformed, and that's the product of the Mercati Generali and the Mattatoio. These are the two major food halls.
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