Ciao, saucy! escape italy Bologna may be Italy's dramatic red city, but it is famous for only one thing - simple spag bol. Here, PHILIP NORMAN tastes its less obvious charms From: Daily Mail | Date: May 10, 2006| Author: | Copyright 2006 Daily Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

WHICH dish best symbolises the development of British cuisine in recent years? Surely it has to be spaghetti bolognese.

Good old spag bol enjoys a regular place at our table - it is comforting, cosmopolitan and ever-so-slightly classy.

And yet how many of us ever spare a thought for the city which gave us this staple of last-minute dinner parties, student bedsits and children's suppers?

My friend, the brilliant Anglo-Italian shoe designer Lulu Rayne, rates Bologna above Italy's more obvious showcases, Florence and Venice. Having just returned from the city - tracking the Bolognese to their ...