Worked with the hands, creamed, beaten to a paste. It is also used to describe the addition of butter or sauce to enrich just before serving a dish. "Mounting".
Burrini. A creamy, semisoft buffalo or cow's milk cheese from Basilicata, Calabria and Molise with an outer layer of butter or small caciocavallo cheeses with butter enclosed in the middle.
Mantova is a province and town of Lombardy, a region in central northern Italy, bordering Switzerland along its northern border. Its capital is Milan.
Coral fungus, so called because it looks for all the world like something you would find on the Great Barrier Reef. Found from summer to autumn.
Meat, most commonly beef, technically this should be from a castrated steer less than four years old. The two most prized breeds of cattle for beef in Italy are the Chianina steers from Tuscany and the Piedmontese Razza.