Gillian Knows Best guide to Zabaglione in Rome

🥚A short and sweet guide to 5 places in Rome for this creamy treat

I lost count of the tabs I had open and snippets of articles clipped and pasted into a Pages document while I was researching zabaglione. Was this rich sweet mix of whipped egg yolks and sugar and wine (traditionally the wine used is Moscato d'Asti or Marsala wine) from a 16th century Franciscan monk Pasquale de Baylon in Torino? Or a frozen delicacy from the court of Catherine Medici? The Italian region of Emilia Romagna stakes its claim in 1471 with a tale of a mercenary Capitan Giovan Paolo Baglioni.

History or legend what really matters is that the simple combination of 3 ingredients is delicious. In Rome you can eat zabaglione in a few different ways. This is my tightly edited list of the best places to have traditional zabaglione as dessert, in coffee, as gelato, or a combination of any or all of these. Because when in Rome, more is more!