A dialect name for the boletus, cep or porcino mushroom, often used in dried form in stews and stocks.
A name in Voghera in Lombardy for the boletus, cep or porcino mushroom, often used in dried form in stews and stocks.
A dialect name for the St George's mushroom. A small white or cream mushroom that appears in parts of Europe around St George's Day on 23rd April.
Snails. There are many names for snaiI in Italy, including bovoli, bovoloni, bovoletti. I was taken one Christmas to the Bovolo, a spiral staircase in Venice, by a Venetian dentist so that he could show me its beauties. These snails are traditionally cooked on hot coals and served with a sauce of olive oil and garlic. Bovoli are also snail-shaped rolls.
Fritters of fried dough from Genoa which are puffy and often served with zabaione as a treat in the days before Lent begins. In Liguria the same things are called bugië.
