Love, Italian Style

Essay and photographs were originally published in Singapore Tatler . When Melanie Dunea discovered the Emilia-Romagna region, she was already in love, but not with Italy. Oh how the tables have turned. “I love you,” I blurt out after the perfect spoonful of tortellini en brodo passes between my lips. The man sitting opposite me, the third-generation owner of Trattoria da Amerigo dal 1934 in…