Fridays in Michigan are feel special. As I walk into my favorite neighborhood trattoria, the atmosphere is thick with the “char” of wood-fired ovens and the heady, floral scent of roasting garlic. You can hear the kitchen’s percussion: the rhythmic thwack of dough being stretched and the hiss of a pan deglazing with white wine.
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I always look for those tell-tale hand-made noodles, the ones with the perfect, slight resistance to the tooth, and the blistered, leopard-spotted edges of a proper Neapolitan crust…