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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Peachy Dines Al Fresco at San Pietro! Peachy Has Picked San Pietro and San Pietro is a Home of The Peachy Deegan!

What could be better than dining outside at San Pietro in the summer months of Manhattan!
We are pleased to kick off the column Peachy Dines Al Fresco with San Pietro!
Here they are drinking The Peachy Deegan, of course!




Above, Manolo Dias  prepares the San Pietro signature sea bass. 
You can see why we see he is better than shoes!
And you can see why Mover and Shaker Gerardo Bruno has worked with him since 1978.
Manolo you will remember is a noted pyrotechnic expert from our previous review:





 The chocolate mousse is absolutely to DIE FOR.

From our expert familiar with the Vatican:
It is based on Mt. 16.18 when Peter acknowledges Jesus to be the Messiah. Jesus replies by naming him 'Cephas' (Petros in Gk) which means 'rock'--the rock on which he founds his Church. (There are more details I can give if you want, but these are covered well by Stephen Ray in 'Upon This Rock', San Francisco: Ignatius 1999). When Jesus founds the Church on Peter (who is the first apostle to publicly recognize who Jesus is), he gives him the 'keys to the kingdom'--the authority to bind and loose (to forgive sins, to teach authoritatively). Today the keys are a symbol of the papacy and appear on the vatican flag (Ray discusses the wider biblical significance of the keys).

Vatican city-state flag: 

St Peter's is the basilica at the Vatican:

It is built over Peter's tomb. The plaza in front is the piazza san pietro. 

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