A dish from Puglia of small ear-shaped pasta served with a pungent green vegetable related to broccoli and chilli often with anchovies.
Ear, most often of a pig. One way of deaing with it is to boil it, cut it into strips and fry it until the fat has rendered.
Judas's ear fungus, often found dried. Dried or fresh they should not be fried, as they explode, but stewed with other ingredients.
Pasta shaped like ears and stuffed with a mixture of ricotta and parsley flavoured with nutmeg, especially in Modigiliana in Emilia-Romagna.
A variety of ordinario rice. Italian rice with the smallest round grains suitable for soups, for stuffing vegetables and for puddings. This fat, short-grained variety originated in Japan, while long-grained rice varieties originated in India. Another variety is balilla.
Oristano is a town in Sardinia where a fortified white DOC wine of the same name is produced, based on Vernaccia grapes.
