city father

Osteria del Pozzo is famous for the brodetto all’anconetano, a dish so important to the coastal city of Ancona that the city fathers chose to dedicate prominent space on the local government website to it.

Imagine a New York city father without digestion; what a subject of scorn he would become to his constituency!

"We are turning into a city-father," he once said, trying to be the first to laugh.