Le Patate di Campagna

Little more than ten miles southwest of Bologna, a group of hills, covered with vines and cherry trees, forms a territory known as Monte San Pietro. My husband escorts our classes there for a visit to a wine estate. After the visit, we all meet for dinner in a trattoria in the nearby hamlet of Stiore. Known as Perla, the trattoria is restaurant, billiard parlor, grappa bar all at the same time, a gathering place for the local farmhands, other workers, and sometimes thei