The best bolognese: real ragù (recipe)
Ragù, also known as Bolognese sauce, is one of the best-known but most misunderstood dishes in Italian cuisine. Here, I give my recipe, traditional, authentic, and delicious.
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Back to Bologna and real bolognaise (recipe)
La dotta, la rossa, la grassa. These are the nicknames given to the city of Bologna by Italians. La dotta (the educated) because it boasts one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world. La rossa (the red) because of its distinctive red-brick architecture. And la grassa (the fat)? Because of its …
Pasticcio di tortellini: tortellini pie from Modena
Ever since I came back from Modena, I’ve been dreaming of this pie. Having grown up in England, I love big, traditional, English pies such as pork pies and the game pies you see in TV costume dramas weighing down many a seventeenth-century table. This is the closest thing I’ve found in Italian cuisine to …
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In Bologna (with no spaghetti)
A recent ad on Italian TV said, ‘If Italy was a house, Emilia-Romagna would be the kitchen.’ Many Italians from other regions might throw up their hands in horror and rightly say, ‘but we have an amazing cuisine too!’ However, this demonstrates the reputation that Emilia-Romagna—the capital of which is Bologna—has as the foodie region of …