Food Fact, March 20: Ravioli

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Today, the vernal equinox, is also National Ravioli Day. 

This means you can celebrate the first day of Spring by feasting on those tidy egg-pasta parcels known as ravioli, stuffed with whatever ingredients you please. My own favorite filling is spinach and ricotta cheese — nothing fancy. Yours?
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Here’s a primer on making your own ravioli from our friends at how2heroes.

Read more about the history of ravioli, traceable to 14th-century Venice and England (the English by way of Norman Sicily…who knew?).