"Winter." Red onion. A mild, sweet 'spring' onion (US: scallion) with strong colour, famously from Certaldo in Tuscany. Vernina will be the winter harvested onion, Statina, the summer one.
A soft disc of round cheese made with a mixture of cow, sheep and goat's milk. It is dried on a rack which gives it marked parallel dents in the white rind.
Vespolina is a red grape grown in Lombardy and Piedmont, often blended with Nebbiolo or sometimes Bonarda grapes.
"Clothed." If this appears in relation to garlic, it would mean that the clove of garlic should not have the skin removed.
A name for Asiago vecchio and Stavecchio which is made in Trentino. It is anything between 9 months and two years old, this is a hard, pressed cow’s milk cheese which is spongy with occasional small holes in a yellow paste and with a smooth, glossy rind. It has a slightly piquant, penetrating flavour but no smell. Its quality is good throughout the year. As it ages it hardens and becomes a good grating cheese. It comes from Asiago in Vicenza in the North of Italy. As this is matured for longer than Asiago, for nine months or more, the flavour is even sharper and stronger.
