Happy Valentine’s Day!
Difficulties figuring out what to buy for the Rome-antic in your life on this Valentine’s Day? Boy, have we got a solution for you: a chocolate Pieta. Where did we find such a thing? There’s a story.
Some years ago, a certain member of the eCool team became entranced by a “candy lady” whose quaint, old-fashioned shop just off Viale Trastevere was stuffed with sweet delights. Said member of the eCool team stopped in regularly, developed a relationship with the “candy lady,” and drastically increased their consumption of sugar-filled treats. Imagine, then, the sadness when this sweet-toothed eCool-er discovered that the “candy lady” had packed up and left. Her shop closed suddenly. She left no forwarding address. There were feelings of loss and abandonment that had to be dealt with. There were cravings that went unsatisfied.
Now imagine the delight of the same eCool-er when she discovered many months later that the “candy lady” wasn’t gone at all, but had just moved her shop to Via degli Orti di Cesare! It was a happy day in candyland.
As it turns out, the beloved “candy lady” prides herself on carrying a large selection of molded chocolates. We made a rendevous through the place some weeks ago and picked up this dark chocolate Pieta which we gave to a dear friend. We know everyone dear in your life would love to get one of these too.
(Unfortunately, no Italian company seems yet to have come up with the idea of selling dark chocolate Pietas over the internet. So, you’ll have to trek down Via degli Orti di Cesare in Trastevere to get your own. Do it before soon, however, as supplies seem to be limited and such delicately molded chocolates are taken off the shelves as the weather warms up–a Dali-esque melting Pieta just doesn’t have the same appeal.)
