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Terms in Italian 451-460 of 10470

al dolce

/ahl DOHL-cheh/
[Italian]

Usually pasta, cooked, cooled and dressed with a sort of salad of cooked, diced beetroot, carrots and celery bound with mayonnaise.

Aleatico

/ah-leh-AH-tee-koh/
[Italian]

A type of red wine grape used in the production of dark sweet, Muscat-like dessert wines mainly in the south of Italy, mostly Puglia.

alece

/ah-LEH-cheh/
[Italian] plural aleci

A name in Puglia and Sicily for the anchovy.

alenoto

/ah-leh-NOH-toh/
[Italian]

A dish from Molise of involtini of lamb intestines or caul fat stuffed with sweetbreads, chopped liver and lights and hard boiled eggs and then roasted. Likely to be seasoned with garlic, parsley and diavolicchio. In slightly different shapes and sizes torcinelli may be called alenoto, marro, gnumerieddi, mazzacorde, and others. Sounds so much more attractive than 'haggis' somehow.

alesandra salami

/ah-leh-SAN-drah sah-LAH-mee/
[Italian]

A variety of salami

Alessandria

/ah-leh-SAN-dryah/
[Italian]

Alessandria is a province and town in Piedmont, a region in the extreme north west of Italy.

aletta

/ah-LEHT-tah/
[Italian] plural alette

The wing of a bird or the fin of a fish.

aletta di pollo

/ah-LEHT-teh di POHL-loh/
[Italian] plural alette di pollo

Chicken wing tip

Alezio

/ah-LEH-tsyoh/
[Italian]

A small town of the Salentina Peninsular in Puglia known for DOC red and rosé wines based on Negroamaro and Malvasia grapes.

alfabeto

/ahl-fah-BEH-toh/
[Italian]

"Alphabet." Tiny rice shaped like the letters of the alphabet and served in soups.