"The very best." A rich cake from Modena, flavoured with walnuts, lemon, rum and honey with chocolate icing.
Richly flavoured Milanese tripe, vegetable and butter bean soup made with wafer-thin pieces of tripe which are sautéed with butter until tender. It is served with Parmesan cheese and fried bread rubbed with garlic. It also refers to the tripe itself.
Amethyst deceiver. It may be cooked with other mushrooms in a mixed mushroom stew or served as a garnish to other dishes.
Amethyst deceiver. It may be cooked with other mushrooms in a mixed mushroom stew or served as a garnish to other dishes.
Freshwater shad, alose of allis shad. From a family of migratory fish, the shad is a bony, tasty, oily fish similar to herring, which travels up rivers in spring and is found in deep lakes. It is famously found in Lake Como in May and June each year, when it is often dried, pressed with bay leaves, grilled and then marinated in vinegar and thyme or cured, in which case it is called missoltit or missoltini. Members of the family include Allis shad (Alosa alosa) and the smaller twaite shad or gizzard shad (Alosa fallax).
