Balanzoni Bolognesi (Italian Bologna Green Pasta) Balanzoni are the filled pasta of Bologna that never left the city. Tortellini travelled the world and tagliatelle became shorthand for the whole region, but the balanzone stayed inside the walls, made at home, and named after a man who does not exist: Dottor Balanzone, the pompous lawyer of the Bolognese commedia dell'arte, dressed in black and green. The dough is green, coloured and faintly flavoured with spinach worked into