"Superior quality" as applied to, say, balsamic vinegar.

Quantity

A yellow variety of green bean.

Lenten. Of Lent: the period leading up to Easter and associated with fasting.

"Lent." Biscuits (US: cookies) made in Sicily during Lent with ground almonds and egg whites. They may be shaped like the letters of the alphabet.

Roasted haunch of goat, usually kid, stuffed with a mixture of spinach and ricotta cheese.

A square of cheese made with cow's milk with a PDO, similar to Bel Paese. It has a soft, smooth, creamy white paste and white rind. This cheese was traditionally made from the milk of cows that had been fed on grass cut in late summer and early autumn, but is now made all year round mainly in the area of Pavia and Bergamo in Lombardy. The curds are uncooked.

"Quarter." Usually the hindquarter or haunch of an animal or sometimes the whole leg.

"Quarter (of lamb)." Haunch or leg of lamb.

At a Sicilian snack stall, quaruma is boiled tripe and gristle, hard bits of skin and all the other parts of the cow that you really thought you would never want to eat!