CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Every corner of Italy has its own culinary traditions, from carbonara in Rome to tortellini in Bologna. Winter Olympics co-host Cortina d’Ampezzo's signature dish is the colorful, stuffed pasta known as casunziei.The ravioli-type dish, also known as casunziei all’Ampezzana, consists of homemade half-moon shaped pasta filled with boiled beets, topped with a sauce of melted butter, Parmesan cheese and poppy seeds.It’s a simple dish that harks back to the Alpine region's poorer past — long before Cortina transformed into a winter playground for the internationa…READ FULL ARTICLE
