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Food Festivals
sagra
food festival, Italian style
Calendar of food festivals
A few of the good ones
aceto/aceto balsamico
vinegar, and a very special vinegar
acquacotta
poor man's soup
aglio
garlic
agnolotti
pasta pillows filled with meat
agrumi
citrus
alla brace
cooked over charcoal or wood
andarinos
helix-shaped pasta
anguilla
eel
arancia
orange
arancini
extra-special rice croquettes—or a sweet
arrosticini
lamb kebabs
asado
barbecued meats
asparagi
asparagus
bagnun
anchovy stew
bardiccio fiorentino
Florentine sausage
bertolina
grape filled pie from Cremona
bistecca
steak
Bitto
beloved cheese from the Valtellina
bogamarì
sea urchins
Bra
Cow's milk cheese
brigoli
fat homemade spaghetti
broccolo
broccoli
brodetto
fish soup
burtleina
fried flatbread from Piacenza
calzone
'trouser legs'- a pizza folded over
canederli
bread dumplings
cappero
caper
cappon
a capon...or a fish
carciofo
artichoke
cascà
couscous
castagna
chestnut
cervellata
one name, many sausages
Cevrin di Coazze
cow's and goat's milk cheese
ciccioli
pork crackling or terrine, or lard bread
ciliegie
cherries
cinghiale
wild boar
cioccolata
chocolate
cipolla
onions
cisra
pork and chickpea soup
ciuìga
salame made of pork and turnips
culatello
choice 'little bum' ham
cuoppo
paper cone filled with fried delights
curnat
Valtellina flatbread
cuscus
couscous
fallone
savoury bun filled with greens, garlic and pepperoncino
fico
fig
filindeu
'God's threads'
fior di latte
cow’s milk mozzarella
focaccette
fried cheese-filled pastries or puffed flat breads
formaggio
cheese
Formaggio di Fossa
pit cheese
fragola
strawberry (and some other things)
fregnaccia
a tart or a pancake or pasta
Fungo di Borgotaro
Very special porcini
garagolo
'pelican foot'
gargati
fat little tubes
gelato
Italian ice cream
gnoccacci
ugly gnoccacci
gnocchi
dumplings
Gorgonzola
sweet or savoury blue-veined cheese
granita
Italian ices
grano
wheat or grain
Graukäse
'grey cheese' from Alto Adige
gubana
rich ring cake filled with walnuts and raisins
impanadas
little pies
jambon de Bosses
prosciutto from Aosta
lardo
fatback
lattarino
smelt
limone
lemon
lumache
snails
maccheroni
macaroni, and more
mandorle
almonds
marrone
chestnut
micooula
traditional Christmas bread
migliaccio
semolina or chestnut flour or pig's blood cake
mortadella
The Pink Queen of Bologna
mostardella
sausage from Genoa
mugnaia
meurnière sauce or rustic handmade pasta
nocciola
hazelnut
Nostralino
traditional wine of Liguria
oca
goose
ossi de Mas-cio
boiled pig bones
Panarda
an enormous communal feast
pane casareccio di Genzano
traditional home-style bread
panicelli
hand-shaped bread rolls
panissa
chickpea polenta, or bean stew
pansarole
sweet fritters
pansotti
Ligurian 'little belly' pasta
panzanella
Tuscan bread salad or flat bread
pastin
sausage from the Dolomite valleys
patata
potato
pattona
traditional chestnut cake
peperoncino
chili peppers
peposo
peppery beef stew invented in the Renaissance
pera
pear
pesce
fish
pesce spada
swordfish
pescegatto
catfish
pesto
more than one kind of sauce
pezzata
stewed lamb, or a breed of cattle
pezzente
fatty pork sausage
pistacchio
pistachio
pizza Rossini
pizza with eggs and mayonnaise
pizzoccheri
buckwheat noodles
Plaisentif
mountain violet cheese
porchetta
herby slow roast pork
porcini
boletus mushrooms
radicchio
red chicory
ramiccia
thin handmade tagliatelle from Lazio
rana
frog
riso
rice
s'a ciappa
meat cooked on slate
salam d'la duja
salame aged in lard
salame
salami
salsiccia
sausage
scattone
pasta water, wine and pepper soup
Sciacchetrà
wine made from raisins on the Cinque Terre
scottona
meat from a young cow
sedano
celery
sfincia
pastries for St Joe
sfogliata
millefeuille pie or tart
salsiccia di Ceriana
fine Ligurian sausage
sportella
very feminine sweet cake
spuntature
pork spare ribs
stoccafisso
stockfish, or wind-dried cod
stracci
very thin omelettes
Strachitunt
Bergamo's layered blue cheese
struzzo
ostrich
succu
Sardinian cheese and pasta pie
tallarinus
thin pasta, cheese, and saffron cooked in broth
testaroli
fried and then boiled pasta
tinca
tench
tiramisu
everyone's favourite 'pick me up'
Tombea
Alpine cow's milk cheese
torrone
nougat
Tortel Dols di Colorno
sweet sour pasta pillows
tortelli
filled pasta
tortellini
pasta with a twist
umido
stewed
uva
grape
ventricina del vastese
spicy Abruzzo salame
vincisgrassi
indecently luxurious lasagna
vino
wine
visciole
sour cherries/cherry wine
zampina
pork sausage
zucca
pumpkin, squash or gourd
zucchini
courgettes, zucchini