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| | The Bounty of Rome - New York Times |
 | | Say Rome to me and my first thoughts are not of the swirling traffic around the marble wedding cake that is a monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, nor of the eaten-out stone melon that is the Colosseum, nor of the "Dolce Vita" set as immortalized by Fellini. |
 | | As beautiful as New York's Greenmarkets are, rarely do apples, pears, grapes, strawberries and, I swear, artichokes exude the perfumes of those at this Roman treasure. |
 | | Similar charms abound in the less expensive, more rustic open market in Testaccio, an old district that is a place of sylvan parks and tree-shaded residential streets, but once the center for slaughterhouses and still known as the quinto quarto, or fifth quarter, referring to the innards and trimmings butchers kept for themselves. |
| travel.nytimes.com /2006/03/26/travel/26rome.html (1005 words) |
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