Roselline di Pasta alla Romagnola

If I Had nine lifetimes in which to explore traditions of Italian cooking, I could use them up and still have dishes left to discover. The pasta “roses” in the recipe below are from my own native Romagna, yet the first time I came across them was only recently, in conversation. Margherita Simili, who has assisted me in Bologna for years, was talking about possible dishes to make for a new pasta shop she had been thinking of opening. She mentioned this and that, all familiar, and then she br