Rome's first Scarpetteria: at the table with bread and sauces but no cutlery

A table without a fork and knife. But only because there is no need. An all-Italian and mainly domestic habit is to clean one's plate with a nice 'slipper". For those not familiar with this custom, simply take a piece of bread fresh to use for brushing what remains on the plate of a given gravy or a condiment.

Based on decades of experience by the owners, the first Rome Shoe Factory. An original, innovative idea that gives new lustre to our traditions. While etiquette, while not prohibiting this custom, 'encloses' it within the walls of the home, from today, on the contrary, it will be possible to make the scarpetta with any kind of sauce, comfortably seated at the table of a restaurant to admire the various ways in which tourists approach our tradition.

At the Scarpetteria in Rome lots of sauces and lots of bread.

La Rome Shoe Factory provides a range of condiments and much bread to be used for brushing all the dishes. From what we learn, the menu is a whole programme. One can enjoy sauces at theamatricianawith the cheeses, to the lumberjack. But also ragout and all the condiments that populate traditional Italian dishes. Then there are slightly more sophisticated sauces, all'ortolana with stracciatella di burrata and smoked salmon, to close with the scarpette of desserts: various chocolate fondues are accompanied by cat's tongues and zoccolette, as reported by The Press.

But what exactly does 'making the slipper"? It is first and foremost a purely southern custom that only over time made its way back to northern Italy. There are several theories about the expression that gave rise to the Rome Shoe Factory. It could be a comparison between the shoe that one wears and as one walks carries away everything it encounters. Or it could be a reference to the term 'scarsetta', according to which in ancient times, when poverty populated the homes of many Italians, one had to clean one's plate well to ensure that nothing was thrown away.

And while the etiquettewhich, as mentioned above, allows the Rome Shoe FactoryInstead, it abolishes the use of cutlery altogether. One eats with one's hands, as tradition dictates, to enjoy all the sauces to the fullest, accompanied by the main food on our tables: bread.