Bolognese ...

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The very first night we had free after posting the last newsletter, I fulfilled a week’s-long obsession, and made Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese sauce. The sky was a deep gray, yellow leaves were beginning to fall on Abingdon Square, and the air had cooled, making this the perfect weather to stay inside and slowly, slowly cook a meaty sauce and fill our sma…