Pasta nero is the new black

"This is something you'd only have seen in Puglia," chef John Coletta of Quartino, the two-story Italian restaurant in River North, says. "Even in Lazio, you wouldn't see it."

The "it" here is dough for pasta or pizza made with grano arso, literally burnt or scorched grain.…

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