A name for bruschetta in Tuscany. Thickly sliced bread, usually the saltless pane scicco, toasted and rubbed with garlic and new green olive oil. Latterly sometimes served with cheese and tomato.
The fianchetto is a beef cut taken from the flank just inside the hind limb and consisting of the tensor fascialata muscle. Good for boiling.
"Flank (of lamb)." A cut from lamb of the posterior abdominal muscles, between the hind leg and the belly. May be the leg or haunch.
A sort of bread pudding from the north of Italy of a warm creamy sauce, made with beaten egg yolks, sugar and rum, poured over bread before baking.
A white wine grape variety grown in Campania and used in making the aromatic wine Fiano di Avellino.