Sephardic Jews Leave Genetic Legacy In Spain - HISTORY

                                             

PROBABLY THE MOST BELOVED OF ROMAN FOODS IS ' CARCIOFI ALL GIUDIA' - 'ARTICHOKES, JEWISH-STYLE'









Before the Diaspora, however, there was a community living in Rome, the oldest continual Jewish settlement in the history of Europe, always part of the cultural landscape, always living in isolation of one kind or another. 



                                           Jewish food was and is Roman food. 



Today, within the world of Jews in Italy, there are several smaller worlds: those of the native Italian Jews, of the Sephardim driven out of Spain, and of the Ashkenazim moving down from Germany and Eastern Europe.

Italian food prevails and Jewish food remains Roman food.



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