Torta Bertolina (Italian Grape Cake from Crema, Lombardy) Torta Bertolina is the cake that Crema bakes when the uva fragola comes in. It is flat, dark, damp in the middle and covered in whole grapes that have burst and sunk halfway into the crumb, and it is one of the very few Italian cakes built around a grape that almost nobody eats at the table any more. The variety is the strawberry grape, small, blue black, thin skinned and so intensely perfumed that people who meet it f