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"Eating The Italian Way"

Restaurant
"Eating the Italian way"
Venue
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Occasion
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Physical description
Pamphlet

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Dishes

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Pasta Asciutta
Trenette al pesto
Zuppa di datteri (Date "stew")
Torta pasqualina
Stoccafisso
Pizza
Various fruits
Coronata Wine
Cinque Terre Wine
Rossese Wine
Gnocchi
Pappardelle
Bistecca alla Fiorentina
Arista
Caciucco
Sweet: Panforte
Various fruits
Wines: Chianti, Rufina, Montalbano, Montepulciano
Fettuccine al burro e sugo
Spaghetti alla amartriciana
maccheroni con la ricotta
Gnocchi
Stracciatella
Fritto Misto
Abbacchio
Saltimbocca
Carciofi alla giudia
Various fruits
Wines: Est Est Est, Cesanese
Wines of the Castelli Romani
Maccheroni with lobsters
Maccheroni with pilchards
Cuscusu
Fish: anchovies, sardines, sword-fish, tunny
Fruits: oranges, mandarines, citrons, zibibbo, medlars, nuts, almonds, pistacchio
Sweets: cannoli, cassate
Wines: Marsala, Corvo, Zucco
Fonduta
Bagna cauda
Boiled beef (Bollito di manza)
Turkey (tacchino)
Tartufi bianchi (white truffles)
Various fruits
Wines: Barolo, Barbaresco, Gattinara, Barbera, Dolcetto
Spaghetti
Porchetta
Tartufi neri (black truffles)
Fish from Trasimeno
Various fruits: white figs stuffed wit almonds and nuts, Dried plums)
Sweets: attorta, pinoccata
Wines: Orvieto, Sacrantino Greco, Vin Santo
Minestroni
Maloreddus
Succu tundu
Taccula
Cassola
Lobster
Game
Various fruits
Wines: Nasco, Ogliastra, Oliena, Giro
Maccheroni al pomodoro
Maccheroni alle vongole
Fritto Misto
Fish grill
Mozzarella in Carrozza
Pizza alla Napoletana
Cheese, etc.
Various fruits: Sorrento oranges
Sweets: Zeppole, pastiera napoletana
Wines: Capri, Lachrima Christi, Sorriso d'Ischia, Falerno, Gragnano
Pasta Asciutta
maccheroni con la ricotta
Roasted kid
Sila trout
Cheese, etc.
Salami
Wines: Ciro, Greco, Altavilla
Fruits: figs, prickly pear, orange
Busecca
Minestrone
Risotto alla Milanese
Risotto alla certosina
Zuppa Pavese
Cotoletta alla milanese
Various fruits
Wines: Sassella, Inferno, Grumello, Sangue di Giuda, Barbacarlo
Sweet: Panettone
Brodetto
Calcioni
Pasticciata
Olivette di vitello
Various fruits
Prochetta
Wines: Vernaccia
Vini dei Castelli di Iesi
Maccheroni
Minestrone di legumi e verdura
Bistecca di manzo
Bistecca di maiale
Carciofi
Salame
Various fruits
Wines: Aglianico
Brodetto
Struffoli
Luganighe
Frittelle
Various fruits
Wines
Gnocchi
Risi e bisi
Pasta e fasoi
Broada
Prosciutto di S. Daniele (Ham)
Fruit: chestnuts, grapes, apples
Wines: Torralba, Prosecco, Verdino, Bardolino, Valpolicella, Soave bianco, Riesling
Gnocchi
Ravioli
Grill of meat and potatoes
fruit tart
Wines: Santa Giustina, Caldaro Lago, Termeno, Terolego, Riesling
Tagliatelle
Tortellini
Brodetto
Riso con l'anitra (Rice with duck)
Zampone
Parmigiano (Parmesan)
Mortadella
Various fruits
Wines: Lambrusco Albano, Sangiovese
Maccheroni alla chitarra
Pincisgrassi
Brodetto
Porchetta
Porchetta
DAIRY DISHES
Sweets: zeppole, torrone of dried figs
Wines: various red and white
Pasta Asciutta
Maccheroni al forno
Panzerotti
Zuppa di pesce
Cazone
Agnello al forno (roast lamb)
Melanzane ripiene
Capitone
Oysters
Various fruits
Wines: Locorotondo Primitivo, Verdeca

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BUCCELLATO - Cake in the shape of rings or rolls, made with pastry-flour and sugar, vanilla, aniseed and currants
BUSECCA - Highly spiced veal tripe with beans
CACIUCCO - Fish stew
CALCIONI - Ravioli browned and baked in the oven
CALZONE - Envelope of pasta containing anchovies, mackerel, and various kinds of vegetables
CANNELONI - Pasties of flaky pastry containing minced meat or fish
CAPONATA - Made of ship's biscuits soaked in water to soften them, with anchovies, onions, slices of fresh tomatoes, basil, garlic, chillis and olives, the whole flavoured with salt, pepper, oil and vinegar
CAPPELLETTI - Pasties of pasta mad with eggs in the shape of a hat, and filled with raw meat
CARCIOFI ALLA GIUDA - (Jerusalem Artichokes), fried in oil
CASSATA ALLA SICILIANA - A sweet made of buttermilk, sugar, vanilla, chocolate, candied fruits and sweet liqueur
CASSOLA - Fish soup
CASTAGNACCIO - Sweet made of chestnut-flour with pine-seeds and currants
COTECHINO - Highly spiced pork sausage
COTOLETTA ALL MILANESE - Veal cutlets dipped in whipped eggs smothered with bread crumbs and fried
CUSCUSU - Fish-stew with semolina a dish of Arab origin
FEGATO ALL VENEZIANA - Veal-liver cut thin, and cooked in a frying-pan with large quantities of onion and pepper
FETTUCCINE ALL PAPALINA - Pasta made with eggs, flavoured with ham and butter
FETTUCCINE ALL ROMANA - Pasta made with eggs, and beef-stew
Zampone - Pork, highly seasoned, made up into sausages in the skin of the forefeet.
Zeppole - Sweet pasta fried or baked.
Zuppa alla Payese - Hot broth poured over two eggs and two slices of toast.
Mortadella - Spiced pork sausage-meat
Mozzarella in carrozza - Sandwiches of slices of bread and mozzarella rubbed in flour and whisked egg, and fried
Mostacciola - Small sweet cakes of almonds, chocolate and candied fruits
Olivette di Vitello - Folded slices of veal cooked with white wine and spices
Panettone - A cake of fine flour mixed with eggs, sugar, butter and candied peel
Panforte - A cake of flour, nuts, almonds, walnuts, candied marrow or melon, candied citron and honey
Panzarotti - Squares of pasta fried and stuffed with mozzarella, dices of ham and eggs, or sweetened buttermilk
Pappardelle - Lasagne flavoured in various ways, particularly with game sauce, hare or duck
Parmigiano - A granulous cheese spotted with "eyes" of light yellow, aromatic flavour
Pizze - These are of various types. The best known is that alla napoletana, a disc of leavened pasta on which are placed diced mozzarella, pieces of tomato with origan and oil, the whole baked in the oven
Pinccatoa - A sweet made of pine-kernels and sugar, baked in the oven
Pecorino- Sheep-milk cheese, sultry and piquant
Pesto - Typical Genovese flavouring of basil, pecorino cheese, garlic and pine kernels soaked in oil. It gives an unmistakeable flavour to minestra and to pasta asciutta
Pastiera Napolitana - Sweet made of puff pastry, barley or wheat, buttermilk, sugar and peel
Pasticciata - Strip of pasta made with eggs flavoured with ragout, mozzarella, flour-paste or cream and baked in the oven
Pasta Beale - Small balls of pasta used in soups
Pasta e Fasoi - Soup of short pastry, well-cooked beans, and pork rind
Incasciata - Pasta in layers with alternate slices of meat and of hard-boiled eggs
Involtini - slices of meat with a sliver of ham, sage and grated Parmesan, rolled and stewed in broth
Lasagne - See Tagliatelle
Luganiga - Spiced pork sausage
Cotoletta alla milanese - Veal cutlets dipped in whipped eggs smothered with bread crumbs and fried
CUSCUSU - Fish-stew with semolina a dish of Arab origin
Frittelle - Rings of leavened pasta, fried and sprinkled with sugar, served hot
Fritto Misto - Mixed grill of liver, heart, brains, veal steaks, "cocks-comb" pasta, chip potatoes, artichokes, marrow and cauliflower
Gnocchi - Dumplings of potatoes and flour or of semolina cooked in milked or salted water, flavoured with ragout or with flour, milk, eggs and parmesan cheese
Gorgonzola - Cheese of two qualities: green, soft and translucent, piquant with a green veining due to the cultivation of a special mould; and white, with characteristics similar to the foregoing, but sweeter and without the mould
Macceroni - These are in great variety: zitoni, mezzani, bucatini, vermicelli, spaghetti, rigatoni, matagliati, etc. They are flavoured with ragout, buttermilk, tomato, mussels, aubergines, pilchards, alla marinara (with garlic, oil, parsley); maccheroni
Maloreddus - Small semolina dumplings coloured with saffron and flavoured with piquant sauce and sheeps' milk cheese
Minestrone - Vegetable soups with pasta or rice. The most characteristic are: alla genovese (with pesto, described below); alla milanese (vegetables with bacon and rice), served hot or cold. alla fiortina with soffrito, (described below)
Pincisgrassi - Cooked slices of pasta made with eggs, placed on a buttered pan, and separated one from another by layers of ragout, pastry-mixture and cheese. The whole baked in the oven
Polenta e Osei - Polenta in which small birds are immersed, flavoured with the gravy of the latter
Porchetta - Suckling pig cooked whole in the oven after having been well salted and spiced
Ravioli - Pasta made with eggs stuffed with meat or with vegetables and buttermilk curd
Recchietta - A type of pasta asciutta
Risi e bisi - Minestra of rice, peas, onion, bacon and ham. Some varieties contain giblets, mutton, turkey, etc.
Risotto alla Certosina - Minestra of rice with ragout of crayfish mushrooms and peas
Risotto alla Milanese - Rice cooked in broth, sprinkled with saffron, flavoured with white wine and enriched with entrails of chicken and minced meat balls
Salcicce - Highly spiced pork sausages
Saltimbocca alla Romana - Slices of veal with sage and ham, cooked in butter, and sprinkled with marsala
Scampi - Shrimp-like crustaceans, fried, used in soups, cooked in the oven or boiled and rolled in slices of ham and flavoured with sauce, etc.
Soffrito - Flavouring made of pork, red chillis, entrails of chicken and tomato sauce
Spaghettie alla Amatriciana - Pasta asciutta flavoured with a sauce made from pig's cheek
Stoccafisso - Dried cod, prepared in Liguria with milk and oil, anchovies, chopped walnuts and black olives
Stracciatella - Broth, in which is dissolved a mixture of eggs, semolina and grated cheese
Strascinati - A kind of ravioli with gravy, cooked in the oven
Struffoli - Balls of sweet pasta rolled in honey, fried, and served on laurel-leaves
Succu Tundu - Soup made of balls of semolina in broth with saffron
Suppli' al Telefono - Spherical or cylindrical shapes of rice, filled with giblets, morzarella or mushrooms and tomato sauce. the mozzazella forms long threads when the "suppli" in eaten, hence the name "telephone'
Taccula - A dish of blackbirds or thrushes cooked with their entrails and wrapped in myrtle-leaves from which they absorb the aroma
Taggliatelle - Thin slices of pasta made with eggs, and flavoured with ragout
Torrone - Sweet made of honey, almonds and nuts
Torta Pasualina - A stuffing of green vegetables, (spinach, artichokes, etc), highly seasoned with curdled milk and eggs, between numerous layers of paper-thin pasta
Tortellini - Light envelopes of pasta filled with pork, turkey, ham, eggs, cheese and spices. Served in broth or "dry".
Trenette - Lasagne flavoured with pesto
Triglie alla Livornese - Rock-mullet with chopped garlic, parsley and celery, cooked in oil with pepper and slices of tomato.
Trippa alla Romana - Ox-tripe with sauce and cheese
FONDUTA - Cream made by melting "fontina" cheese from the Val d'Aosta with butter, egg-yolks, milk and white truffles
Aperol
Aglianico
Albana
Bitter
Cynar
Martini Dry
Punt et Mes
Select
Rabarbaro
Vermouth
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