Agra Dolce
sweet and sour
Al Fuoco
baked under the fire
Al Marone
chestnut or brown
Amatriciana
pasta sauce made of guanciale, onions, chili peppers and cheese
Arancini
rice balls, little oranges
Asiago
sharp cows milk cheese from veneto
Assagino
sample, small bite or taste
Biscotti
twice baked almond cookie
Bolognese
hearty, long simmered meat and vegetable sauce, ragu
Calabrese Style
pan fried peppers, tomato, touch of ricotta
Carpaccio
paper thin slices of raw meat or fish
Classico Nuovo
newly defined classic
Coppa
cooked and pressed cured pork, air dried for six months or more
Crostini
thin slices of toast covered with various ingredients
Della Nonna
from the grandmother
Delmonico
rich cut of beef from the rib
Farro
spelt, whole grain wheat
Fontina
ancient cheese from the valle daosta
Fra Diavolo
dish made with hot chile peppers
Fritto Misto
mixed fry, fried food assortment
Frutti di Mare
fruit of the sea, seafood
Garganelli
quill shaped pasta from imola Italy
Giardiniera
garden style, vegetables marinated in vinegar
Guanciale
salt cured hogs jowl, similar to unsmoked bacon
Guazetto
seafood cooked in a light sauce of wine, garlic and parsley
In Bianco
dish served without tomato
Involtino
stuffed rolls of meat or fish
Maccheroni
tubular pasta, often ridged
Mantecato
adding butter and parmigiano to a dish at the end of the cooking process
Mozzarella
soft cheese made from cows milk
Osso Buco
pierced bone, braised shank from lombardy
Paglia E Fieno
straw and hay, fresh and spinach tagliatelle
Pancetta
cured pork similar to bacon
Panino
small bread, small sandwich
Panna Cotta
eggless custard
Panzanella
salad containing tomatoes, cucumber, bread, basil, vinegar and olive oil
Pasta Fresca
fresh made pasta
Pecorino Pepato
a sharp hard cheese from fresh ewes milk containing peppercorns
Perciatelli
pierced through hollow spaghetti
Pesceria
from the fish monger
Pignoli
pine nuts, from the italian stone tree
Pomodoro
golden apple, sauce made from plum tomatoes
Profiterole
cream puff pastry shells
Prosciutto
cured ham in the region of parma
Saltimboca
leap in the mouth, layered with sage leaf and prosciutto
San Marzano
tomato from campania region
Soprasatta
salami made from pork meat and fat, flavored with lemon peel and various spices
Spacarelli
spicy broccoli rabe
Sugo
juice, sugo al pomodoro-tomato sauce
Taleggio
soft butterey cows milk cheese from the taleggio valley near lombardy
Tortiglione
large tube shaped pasta with spiraled edges
Vongole
true clams, carpet shell clam
Zabiglione
dessert of whipped egg yolks, marsala wine and sugar