One is partial to grilled calamari, another cannot resist spaghetti with seafood and a third confesses to a weakness for gelato.
As cardinals prepare to enter the Sistine Chapel in a few days to elect a new pope, they are engaged in intense discussions over plates of carbonara and bottles of wine in the Borgo, the village-like quarter of cobbled lanes, tiny piazzas and ornate fountains that lies just a few yards from the walls of the Vatican City State.
Think of them as “gnocchi negotiations”; perhaps “tagliatelle talks”.
