Salame della duja. A mild pork salami from Piedmont, much softer than more familiar ones, preserved in fat in a special pot called a duja. The various names of this sausage are said to derive from French "andouille". As ''ndugghia" and " 'nduglie", " 'nduja" and " 'nnuglia", it describes a very spicy sausage of Calabria, made with finely minced (US: ground) pork, lights and liver and diavolicchio chillis and where it is served with vegetable soup.
A variety of grape native to Piedmont and used in making great Piedmontese wines such as Barolo and Barbaresco. These wines should be drunk with the powerful foods of the north of Italy, game and white truffles in autumn. References to these grapes are known from the earily 14th Century.
Balls or pancakes made with chestnut flour and baked, and usually served with cheese, especially pecorino or ricotta.
Nectarine. A smooth-skinned cultivar of a peach, not, as is often thought, a cross between a peach and a plum.
