A sort of sauce from the Veneto made with chicken livers or salt pork and sage, sautéed with green peas and served with pasta.
A sort of risotto from the Veneto made by frying off some pancetta, onions, garllic and usually parsley. Risotto rice is then added with green peas and cooked. Parmesan cheese is stirred in and the dish is served.
Sea urchin or sea hedgehog. The edible part is the orange coral or roe. They should really only be eaten live.
An island off Tuscany, a region in north western Italy, famous for being the island on which Napoleon was imprisoned and for dry DOC red wines made from Sangiovese grapes and whites made from Trebbiano grapes. It is DOC Zone 303.
Lobster. The European lobster is a large, marine shellfish with huge claws and is dark, mottled blue-black before cooking, turning red during the process. The flesh is sweet and tender. The Maine or American lobster found in the United States is huge in size and lacks the wonderful sweetness of its European cousin. American varieties may sometimes be brick red before cooking. In Europe they are likely to up to 2 kg (4¼ lbs) while North American ones may be a lot larger. Increasingly, American lobsters are imported for use in Europe.
