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All of Italy, written with care: the regions, the table, the journeys, the makers.

Photograph · Val d'Orcia, Toscana

The season

September in Italy

The wine harvest begins, porcini in the markets, and the sea still warm without the crush.

  1. Tuscany's food and wine trail
  2. Harvest begins in the Langhe
  3. Calabria, the sea still warm
The Last Pasta Makers of Bologna

The featured story

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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