"Big pod." A soft cheese made with sheep's milk, similar to ricotta. It is made in spring on farms in the region of Livorno (Leghorn). This cheese is usually eaten with butter beans or broad beans (US: fava beans), baccelli, after which it is named.
Juniper berry. The blue-black berry of an evergreen bush which is dried and used in cooking with strongly flavoured foods such as game. Famously they are used in making gin.
"Kisses." Round chocolate, lemon or chocolate-coated almond or hazelnut sweetmeats made with ground and whole nuts. They are individually wrapped in foil decorated with a line from poetry or a romantic proverb. There are particularly well-known versions from Perugia in Umbria.
