No need to meddle with a classic Italian recipe

sir – Last week I purchased a prepared meal of pasta in Bolognese sauce, and very tasty it was, too.

However, I did begin to wonder why, according to the label, it needed more than 70 ingredients. Perhaps one of your readers can explain.

Max Scott

Ipswich, Suffolk

A young girl tends to bowls of pasta sauce left to thicken outside a house in Syracuse