food festival, Italian style
A few of the good ones
vinegar, and a very special vinegar
poor man's soup
garlic
pasta pillows filled with meat
citrus
cooked over charcoal or wood
helix-shaped pasta
eel
orange
extra-special rice croquettes—or a sweet
mutton kebabs
barbecued meats
asparagus
anchovy stew
Florentine sausage
grape filled pie from Cremona
steak
beloved cheese from the Valtellina
sea urchins
Cow's milk cheese
fat homemade spaghetti
broccoli
fish soup
fried flatbread from Piacenza
'trouser legs'- a pizza folded over
bread dumplings
caper
a capon...or a fish
artichoke
couscous
chestnut
one name, many sausages
cow's and goat's milk cheese
pork crackling or terrine, or lard bread
cherries
wild boar
chocolate
onions
pork and chickpea soup
salame made of pork and turnips
choice 'little bum' ham
paper cone filled with fried delights
Valtellina flatbread
couscous
savoury bun filled with greens, garlic and pepperoncino
fig
'God's threads'
cow’s milk mozzarella
fried cheese-filled pastries or puffed flat breads
cheese
pit cheese
strawberry (and some other things)
a tart or a pancake or pasta
Very special porcini
'pelican foot'
fat little tubes
Italian ice cream
ugly gnoccacci
dumplings
sweet or savoury blue-veined cheese
Italian ices
wheat or grain
'grey cheese' from Alto Adige
rich ring cake filled with walnuts and raisins
little pies
prosciutto from Aosta
fatback
smelt
lemon
snails
macaroni, and more
almonds
chestnut
traditional Christmas bread
semolina or chestnut flour or pig's blood cake
The Pink Queen of Bologna
sausage from Genoa
meurnière sauce or rustic handmade pasta
hazelnut
traditional wine of Liguria
goose
boiled pig bones
an enormous communal feast
traditional home-style bread
hand-shaped bread rolls
chickpea polenta, or bean stew
sweet fritters
Ligurian 'little belly' pasta
Tuscan bread salad or flat bread
sausage from the Dolomite valleys
potato
traditional chestnut cake
chili peppers
peppery beef stew invented in the Renaissance
pear
fish
swordfish
catfish
more than one kind of sauce
stewed lamb, or a breed of cattle
fatty pork sausage
pistachio
pizza with eggs and mayonnaise
buckwheat noodles
mountain violet cheese
Pacentro’s favourite stew
herby slow roast pork
boletus mushrooms
red chicory
thin handmade tagliatelle from Lazio
frog
rice
meat cooked on slate
salame aged in lard
salami
sausage
pasta water, wine and pepper soup
wine made from raisins on the Cinque Terre
meat from a young cow
celery
pastries for St Joe
millefeuille pie or tart
fine Ligurian sausage
very feminine sweet cake
pork spare ribs
stockfish, or wind-dried cod
very thin omelettes
Bergamo's layered blue cheese
ostrich
Sardinian cheese and pasta pie
thin pasta, cheese, and saffron cooked in broth
fried and then boiled pasta
tench
everyone's favourite 'pick me up'
Alpine cow's milk cheese
nougat
sweet sour pasta pillows
filled pasta
pasta with a twist
stewed
grape
spicy Abruzzo salame
indecently luxurious lasagna
wine
sour cherries/cherry wine
pork sausage
pumpkin, squash or gourd
courgettes, zucchini