Man on horseback. A type of pleasant edible mushroom of yellowish colour with which some cases of poisoning have been recorded.
"Fat monk." A dish from Capri of aubergines (US: eggplants) sliced and layered with veal and prosciutto, and topped with Fontina cheese before baking.
Moncenisio is a name for Murianengo, which is a cylinder of dry, hard blue artisan cheese made with cow's milk. It has an ivory to yellow paste and a wrinkled, hard, reddish-grey rind. It is produced in Piedmont, along the border with France in the alpine pastures of the Moncenisio Pass. On the other side of the border the same cheese is called 'Bleu du Mont Cenis'. Murianengo is made with raw, either skimmed or whole milk and contains 50% (30%) fat. It may be found in the following dimensions: 25 or 35 cm (10" or 14") diameter x 10 or 20 cm (4" or 8") deep, weighing 8 or 10 kg (1 lb 1½ oz or 1lb 6 oz). The cheese is also available dusted with ash. Affinage is 3-7 months.
Meatballs or croquettes from Lombardy made with minced (US: ground) beef and grated cheese and fried in butter.
A DOC zone in Piedmont producing both red and white wines which are named after the variety of grape from which they are produced, which are many and various.
The chocolate banded snail, sometimes called the noodle snail. It lives in gardens, hedges, and dunes, where it feeds on vegetation. The snail got its scientific name because the rings on its shell resemble vermicelli (a type of pasta). It is also sometimes called the "noodle snail." These snails commonly have about five brown rings on their cream-coloured shells. The snails are 17 to 21 millimeters high and 20 to 25 millimeters wide.
