"Quail in a backpack." Quail wrapped in thin slices of ham, stuffed into a green pepper and baked in a sauce of tomatoes and onions.
Core or heart. As in other languages this indicates any of a number of foods, though it is most often applied to vegetables. It often means quartered lettuce hearts or cabbage but could also mean artichoke hearts or palm heart.
Artichoke hearts, where the leaves and the choke are cut away to reveal the heavenly core of the artichoke. If you are lucky, you might live somewhere where this is freshly done for you, as in the Rialto Market in Venice.
