Burrini. A creamy cow's milk cheese from Basilicata, Calabria and Molise with an outer layer of butter or small caciocavallo cheeses with butter enclosed in the middle.
A name in Liguria for the big-scale atherine, a type of atherine similar to the sand smelt. A marine fish, usually deep-fried, it is a small, silvery fish similar to the argentine. When tiny it is treated in the same way as whitebait. This fish grows up to 12 cm.
"Take out and put in." A DOC red wine of Puglia made from Uva di Troia grapes The dialect name indicates that fresh grapes are added to fermented grapes and the sulphur drawn off. It results in a fresh wine.
A vegetable plant from southern Italy. Could you send details (and a picture) to queries@whatamieating.com if you know more?
