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aperitivo

pre-dinner drink, often with nibbles

This can be anything: a cocktail, vermouth, wine or liqueur, often with snacks. In bars in Turin and elsewhere, it's become an occasion for set price drinks and a help yourself buffet of finger food. Big ones are known as an apericena

Drinks

Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls

Image by Fabio