Passatelli

When I eat this dish, I am immediately transported back to when I was a boy, sitting at my grandmother Nonna Mary’s table. Passatelli is one of those dishes that is inextricably tied to the place whence it comes. Romagna (the eastern part of Emilia-Romagna, where my parents were born) is still the only place you’ll find this soup. The name literally means “passed through.” Dough is pushed, or passed, through a tool that consists of a perforated disk attached to two handles,