Exclusively hand-made with kitchen scraps such as stale bread, hardened cheese, eggs and beef marrow bones.Passatelli, or rather passatelli soup, is a poor but definitely tasty dish typical of the ancient Emilia culinary tradition.Learn all about it to arrive in Bologna hungry and well prepared.

Passatelli is one the best pasta in Bologna. No discussion. You get it by passing the dough through a special press called fer.​It's quite similar to a ricer, formed by a slightly domed metal disc with a diameter of 15 cm, with holes of about 4-5 mm and comes with two side handles for crushing hard on the dough until it comes out of the holes, realizing that the typical shape: thick and coarse spa

Christmas is the perfect time for Bolognese cuisine. What's better than a classic hidden soup, less famous than tortellini? I usually show it during our food tour in Bologna because it's really unusual. It's called Zuppa Imperiale (Imperial soup).In the bakeries showcases you can mistake it for a cake, cut into small cubes. But you're not that far from the truth. Zuppa Imperiale recipe is

Last Friday was a kind of a snow day in Bologna. I mean nothing compared to the 'big snow' of 2012 (see how was Bologna under the snow that time), but still enough to leave the car in the parking and walk around with my camera to take a few photos. These are a few shots I took during the afternoon, walking around the city centre from Via Saragozza to Piazza Maggiore. I hope you like them

Every year in December, the elegant Piazza Minghetti in Bologna hosts a French food market. Cheese, chocolate, wine and a Christmas atmosphere in the air.Nothing like the best food markets of Bologna like Mercato delle Erbe or Quadrilatero. But still a good place for foodies looking for presents. Brie de Meaux Cheese How is Bologna French Market Bologna's French market is an outdoor seaso

There's a new place in Bologna. It's called Kilowatt but for locals it's just Le serre. It was born from the old greenhouses of Bologna's most famous gardens: Giardini Margherita. You can go there to get one of the best aperitivo in Bologna, to enjoy a Dj set or to read and study during the day. It's so far one of the most fascinating places I've ever been to. Not only in Bologna. Old gree