Decorative rosettes made with the appropriate food, depending on the dish, ie, pastry for a pie, icing sugar for a cake.
Firenze (Florence) is a province and town of Tuscany, a region in north western Italy. Many dishes originated in this city.
"Whistles." Fine, small pasta tubes like a cross between fusilli and macaroni, traditionally cooked with cheese sauce in Calabria.
Giant puffball. An edible mushroom which slices almost like bread. Use only the smaller ones and they should be heavy and firm. If they are light in weight than they have dried up. Always cut them open from top to bottom with a sharp knife to check the interior
Beefsteak mushroom. It may be sliced and fried like liver, or eaten raw with a salad, when it should be cut into thin strips, soaked in salted water, drained and then dressed with a vinaigrette.
A name in Puglia for the salema, a prime, bream-like, food fish found in warmer waters of the Atlantic, the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
