Vatican City - Eggplant Parmiggiano with Fennel and Orange Salad and Garlic Green Beans
Vatican City is a unique and curious land like no other. Located in the heart of Rome (the capital of Italy), The Vatican is the only independent ‘city-state’ country on Earth to be fully surrounded by another country and also by that country’s capital city. Vatican City is also the smallest country in the World by both population and size. It has no military forces of its own, and yet, this tiny country (which is only the size of 6 football fields), wields significant power because The Vatican is the official home of The Pope (the global leader of the Roman Catholic Church which has over 1.4 billion world-wide followers). There has been a Pope living in The Vatican for over a thousand years and for most of those years The Pope and the location were both Italian. So, the geography of Vatican City is steeped in centuries of Roman food practices and Italian culture. But that all changed in 1929 when Vatican City became its own independent country. Since then, whilst it has de...