If we are to believe Joseph Wechsberg, the author of Blue Trout and Black Truffles, dumplings are for all practical purposes the Czech way of life. The Italians have let imagination run in the creation of many frivolous forms of pasta, and the Czechs put their whole hearts into dumplings - soup dumplings, dumplings instead of potatoes, dessert dumplings, dumplings round, flat,
