"Small room." A Tuscan term for a cellar trattoria or restaurant.

A type of comber fish. This one has vertical bands. A bony fish with very good flavour, useful for soups.

A Sicilian dish of meatballs simmered in tomato sauce.

An Umbrian dish of pig's offal (US: organ meat) smoked with fennel seeds and garlic, usually grilled.

Innards. Giblets. Entrails. Intestines.

Intestine. Gut.

Black pudding (US: blood sausage).

A pudding often similar to blancmange made with chocolate or vanilla and often containing fruit or nuts. It may also be a small black pudding (US: blood sausage).

Chocolate pudding, usually mousse-like

"Belgian pudding." A pudding from Mantua flavoured with chocolate and coffee.