Imagine having lunch with your grandmother, a grouchy old lady who spent her entire life in the kitchen. We call them “sdzore,” but Anna Maria Monari is a lot more than that. She opened Trattoria Anna Maria in 1985, and a visit to her restaurant is like going back to Bologna of that time. Portraits of Bologna’s celebrities adorn the walls and traditional dishes, like the pasta, are handmade in the lab just a few steps from the restaurant. Try the passatelli. Exclusively handmade with eggs and kitchen scraps such as stale bread, hardened cheese and a pinch of nutmeg, passatelli, or rather passatelli soup because it is served with meat broth, is tasty dish typical of the ancient culinary tradition of the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna.