Comments on: Bologna “La Grassa”

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:17:12 +0000

Bologna is one of the most amazing places in Italy!

By: Judy Marcon

Judy Marcon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:39:20 +0000

I would recommend to anyone visiting Italy to try horse meat. My husband’s family lives in Italy and we have had many a meal with horse meat, such as ribs, hamburger, cutlets, and even carpaccio. Horses are raised for the purpose of providing meat and they are young at the time of slaughter. The meat tastes like a very lean cut of beef. There are special butcher shops,called Macelleria Equina, that specialize in selling this.

By: Monica Pileggi

Monica Pileggi — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:45:53 +0000

Gian, I’d love to get the recipe for the lasagna alla Bolognese. mjpileggi@comcast.net. My husband and I went out to dinner last night and I ordered the Fettucini alla Bolognese. Very good, but not the same!

Maybe Bologna should be our secret. I’d hate to have it overrun with tourists like some other Italian cities.

You can enjoy my other Bologna photos here: http://www.pileggiphotography.com/gallery/5415119_AjdWt#331123475_RZJv7

By: Gian Banchero

Gian Banchero — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:45:30 +0000

Dear Monica; Oh, I do wish I could remember the name of the restaurant but it was forty years ago during my first visit to Italy. It was the first time I ate really good Italian food other than from my father’s Piemontese kitchen or my mother’s Sicilian presentations (I never believed the food in Italian-American restaurants was really Italian). It was in Bologna where I realized the old adage about living to eat instead of eating to live. Since that long ago visit I’ve cooked Lasagna alla Bolognese many times thanks to Adi Boni’s great cookbook. I also remember that no matter where I ate in Bologna did I have a less than perfect meal, the food at the delis were/are stellar. Thank you for the photos, they brought back many good memories.

By: caryl curry

caryl curry — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:35:58 +0000

Monica — I would so love to be back there wandering around the streets near the Cathedral and university. Les and I enjoyed three days there, partly with a friend who lived there and worked for the Johns Hopkins international program. The best food in Italy, hey say. I had lots of spaghetti bolognese, of course. I don’t now why we can’t duplicate it. I get close when I use veal and some white wine and mushrooms. The tortelini looks like it’s about to jump off the plate into the reader’s mnouth. If only!.

By: Tony Lino

Tony Lino — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:35:47 +0000

Very nice. The pictures are making me hungry.

By: Carol Kilroy

Carol Kilroy — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:27:31 +0000

Thanks for sending the article……….loved reading about Bologna and the tortellini……….the photos are so colorful!

By: Dick Perry

Dick Perry — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:32:39 +0000

Very enticing description. I expect that a lot of people will be adding Bologna to their itinerary. As usual, your photos are great.

I expect this to be included in Bologna’s tourist brochures.

By: Monica Pileggi

Monica Pileggi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:36:25 +0000

Thanks for the compliments everyone! Gian, I’d like to know where you had the Lasagna alla Bolognese. I had the same dish at Trattoria Marisposa, Via Bertiera, 12, right across from Hotel Paradise and I think I died that night and went to heaven! I had the tortellini with gorgonzola at Il Portico, Via A. Righi, 11. Bologna should definitely be on everyone’s list of “must-see.”

By: Gian Banchero

Gian Banchero — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:22:44 +0000

During my visits to Bologna I’ve always been amused that though the city might be nick-named “La Grassa” but, as the photo shows, there are very few people who are grasso… overly plump. The first meal I experienced in that beautiful city included the famous Lasagna alla Bolognese with its green pasta, Bolognese sauce, and creamy rich bechamel!!! And yes, the tortellini!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Monica.