A Venetian dialect word for soft-shelled shore crab or green crab about a quarter of the size of their American counterparts. If not at the soft shell stage they are served on the shell and are particularly sought after from April to May.
A moka is a type of espresso coffee maker consisting of a pot which can be unscrewed in the middle, revealing a third part in the middle. The bottom is filled with water, the middle with finely ground coffee and the whole screwed back together in. Placed on a flame, the water boils, is forced up through the ground coffee and arrives in the top part of the pot as a serious blast of caffeine. Watch out, if using one, as the handle can get fantastically hot.
A Venetian dialect word for soft-shelled shore crab or green crab about a quarter of the size of their American counterparts. If not at the soft shell stage they are served on the shell and are particularly sought after from April to May. The small common sore crab at in its soft-shelled stage.
"Soft shell crabs in the style of Murano" in the Venetian lagoon. These are dipped in beaten egg and flour and fried.
A variety of grape used for making light red or rosé wines. Those grown around Lake Garda in the Veneto are used in the production of Bardolino, which is made using a combination of Corvina Veronese, Molinara, Rondinella and Negrara grapes.
Molise is a region just south of Abruzzo between Abruzzo and Puglia on the Adriatic coast of Italy north of Campania. It shares much of its cuisine with Abruzzo, though there is a signficant Albanian presence which has some influence. Vegetables are grown and chillis and tomatoes abound. Meat is generally provided by pigs. Traditionally the men of Abruzzo and Molise were shepherds and their way of life, involving constant movement and lack of a stable setting, created a cuisine based on the requirements of that life-style - foods that were easy and quick to prepare and could be carried easily. This movement of herders is called the "transumanza".
