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Miscellaneous

The bin where things end up if they don't fit in any other category.

Cookware and tableware

What's what in the kitchen

Cuts of meat

any way you slice it

Vegetarians and vegans

and some important phrases

Food allergies

and intolerances

Italian cheese words

reading the labels

Italian bar words and customs

How to get a drink

Restaurant words and customs

types of restaurants, booking, menus, ordering, etc

Five minute grammar lesson

indispensable

Italian pronunciation

say it right, in every region of Italy

Wine words

Know your vino

Reading Italian recipes

help in la cucina

Reading Italian labels

help in the shop

General, obscure & dialect

Words that don't fit in anywhere else

apericena

buffet meal in a bar

boccone

a mouthful or a sea snail

buongustaio

gourmet

granella

finely crumbled

grasso

fat

guscio

shell

kasher

kosher

lumache

snails

manna

sweet sap of the Mediterranean ash tree

margarina

margarine

Natale

Christmas

olio

oil

Panarda

an enormous communal feast

rana

frog

sale

salt

schiscetta

lunchbox

tiella

a word of many meanings