frattaglie

Not common on most tourist menus, but the quinto quarto ('fifth quarter') of the animal, whether veal, lamb, beef, goat poultry or whatever, has always had a big role in tradtional cooking. If you look you can find it in simple peasant stews and also in celebrated recipes such as the Piedmontese finanziera or vincisgrassi from the Marche.

Offal is made into a score of regional sausages, such as the Puglian turcinieddri. Trippa (tripe) is most popular in Tuscany, as are budelli (chitterlings) and obscure organs such as lampredotto, the fourth stomach of a cow.

In central Italy and Sicily you'll find milza (spleen) spread on crostini. Another word for the organs of smaller animals is coratella. Animelle are sweetbreads. Rigaglie are giblets.

In Naples and elsewhere in the south, where frattaglie might be called marescialla, are an old-fashioned street food, now seen mostly at festivals, sold from little vans: o' pere e o' musso, 'trotter and snout' and other organs besides, boiled and chopped up in a paper cup with a slice of lemon.