Sweet items which have a long shelf-life, such as jams (US: jellies), sweets and biscuits (US: cookies).

Small, marzipan sweetmeats kept in the larder in Sicily for unexpected guests.

A brand name of a versatile cream cheese made from cow's milk. It is very mild and creamy which makes it ideal in cooking as it does not overwhelm other flavours.

A soft Sardinian cheese made with sheep's or goat's milk and eaten when the cheese is young.

"Sweet of Turin." A refrigerated cake from Turin made with chocolate, biscuits (US: cookies), almonds and rum.

"Little sweets", usually meaning petit fours.

A grape from which light, almost sparkling dry, red wines are made in 7 DOC areas of Piedmont.

A fruit-packed red wine made from a grape of the same name.