Lonely Planet

70 Lonely Planet Traveller October 2017###### Taste Tour ItaliaEmilia-Romagna has been known for its immenseagricultural abundance since ancient times. The RomanEmpire might have been forged through the sword, butits armies were fed off the fields in this region of northernItaly. The road the Romans built through here, the ViaEmilia, still connects a string of places today – Parma,Modena, Bologna – whose very names have come torepresent some of the world’s most sought-after foodsWORDS GABRIELLE JAFFE @gjaffe O PHOTOGRAPHS LAURA EDWARDS @laurajayneedwards