Fettuccine with Radicchio

This is an unusual dish because the sauce has a dark pink color and a bitterness that is unexpected. If you put aside your preconceptions about what you expect Fettuccine al Radicchio to be, I think you will be intrigued. Though radicchio is the local vegetable of Treviso, north of Venice, this recipe was created at the Ristorante Aquilanti in Viterbo, a provincial capital north of Rome.

I went to Viterbo on September 4, 1983, specifically to sample this dish. At the time I was walk