If you think you can come to Italy and keep your waistline intact, you are sorely mistaken – for there is no such thing as being on a diet in this country. Between the countless gelatos (it's hot in Italy, okay?) and the pasta and the wine, well, calories really aren't much of a concern. Especially in Emilia-Romagna, one of Italy's most underrated foodie regions.

I just recently spent a few days in Bologna and Modena, where I visited factories and ate at as many restaurants as I possibly could in order to get more familiar with the long-lasting, mouth-watering, highly traditional history of food in this part of the world. So put on your eating pants everyone, you're about to experience the meat sweats (if you don't know what I'm referring to, we can't be friends).

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