"Hair." Angel's hair. Fine long spaghetti. In Sicily capellini are fried and dressed with honey. It also means clams.
A name in the Etna region of Sicily for the parasol mushroom. Good baked with butter and garlic, or fried.
A large meat pie made with hard boiled eggs, cheese, macaroni, aubergines (US: eggplants), shaped like a policeman's hat and served cold.
"Priest's hat." An high quality pork sausage made from salted, dried pig's legs in Emilia-Romagna which is shaped to resemble the three-cornered priest's hat, and wrapped in a very thin rind from the intestines of the pig, in a similar process to zampone. It is usually boiled and served with pulses and a herb sauce.
A dialect name for the boletus, cep or porcino mushroom, often used in dried form in stews and stocks.
Capers. The pickled flower buds of the white-flowering, low-growing caper bush which grows around the Mediterranean on rock faces exposed to the sun. They are usually pickled in vinegar or salt. They are particularly popular in sauces with fish but also served in other savoury dishes. The finest in Italy are said to grow on Salina or Pantelleria in the Lipari Islands, just off Sicily.
