A soup which, legend has it, took seven maidens each using seven different ingredients seven days to concoct. It is traditionally made on 1st May each year in Teramo. With the arrival of spring and as the new harvests approach, the cupboards are all cleared of their ingredients, so in go all the remaining dried beans and flours from last year and boiled pork and vegetables and herbs, whatever is available. It is made in huge quantites to be consumed over the following days.
A creamy, hard, cow's milk cheese made with raw milk. The paste is pale ivory with some holes. It comes from the Sud Tirol high up in the Dolomites near the Austrian border. The flavour is milk but penetrating.
A name in Puglia for silverside (US: round cut) from the rump or thigh of beef at the back of the hind limb.
"Threads of horsemeat." Dried, smoked horse meat, rather like jerky or biltong, shredded into fine, bright red threads.
A name in Messina in Sicily for flat ribs, a mid-rib cut medial to the shoulder. Good for boiled meats.
