The Marubini Chronicles: A Memoir
My other lives as Cremonese, Tortello Cremasco, Jackson, and my three-decade relationship with a stuffed pasta, and a village in Lombardia.
There’s a saying in Cremonese dialect: En piàt de marubéen el fa resusitàa àan i mòort—“a plate of marubini can bring the dead back to life.” Marubini is the stuffed pasta of Cremona, the province in Lombardia along the Po River where I lived when I was 19. Marubini are plump little rings similar to tortellini, …