Traditional Italian Piacenza Pasta with Beans Story of the Dish Pisarei e Fasò is one of Piacenza’s defining dishes and an outstanding example of cucina povera. Pisarei are tiny handmade dumplings based on flour and breadcrumbs, shaped with the thumb to create an indentation that captures sauce. Fasò means beans in local dialect. Borlotti beans, tomato and pancetta form a rustic sauce that becomes creamy naturally as some beans break down. Recipe Information Difficulty: Inter