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Pici (Italian:, locally) is thick, hand-rolled pasta, like fat spaghetti. [1] It originates in the province of Siena, in Tuscany; in the Montalcino area they are also referred to as pinci (Italian:). The dough is typically made from flour and water only. The addition of egg is optional, being determined by family traditions.
Paccheri (Italian:) is a type of pasta in the shape of a very large tube, originating from the Campania region of Italy. They are generally smooth, but there is also a ribbed version, paccheri millerighe. The name comes from Neapolitan paccharia, 'slaps', with a depreciative -ero to indicate something common. [2]
In the village of Ulassai, until the 1960s, the tradition was to consume culurgiones exclusively on All Souls' Day (sa di' de sos mortus). [2]Throughout Ogliastra and in the villages of Sadali and Esterzili of the Barbagia of Seulo, culurgiones (culurxonis, culurgionis or culingionis) are not considered just food, but may also be presented as a gift.
The waiter saunters over to take your order and, cool as a cucumber, you say: "I'll have the orecchiette, grazi." Except it doesn't go quite as planned.
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Mafaldine were named in honor of the birth of Princess Mafalda of Savoy (thus the alternative name "little queens"). [2] Mafaldine is prepared similarly to other ribbon-based pasta such as linguine and fettuccine. It is flat and wide, usually about 1 cm (½ inch) in width, with wavy edges on both sides with a curl at the ends that remains well ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Central Italian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Central Italian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.