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An elderly woman rolling a large thin sheet of egg pasta with a long wooden rolling pin while a young apprentice folds tortellini in a Bologna kitchen

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The Last Pasta Makers of Bologna

At six in the morning, on a wooden table older than most of the city's restaurants, a woman named Lucia Ferrari rolls a sheet of pasta thinner than a glove. She is 82. Her apprentice is 28. Between them stretches a craft that, for a generation, looked as if it might not find a second act. In Bologna, quietly, it has.

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