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The Italian sausage was initially known as lucanica, [3] a rustic pork sausage in ancient Roman cuisine, with the first evidence dating back to the 1st century BC, when the Roman historian Marcus Terentius Varro described stuffing spiced and salted meat into pig intestines, as follows: "They call lucanica a minced meat stuffed into a casing, because our soldiers learned how to prepare it."
In North America, Italian sausage most often refers to a style of pork sausage. The sausage is often noted for being seasoned with fennel or anise as the primary seasoning. In Italy, a wide variety of sausages , very different from the American product, are made.
Tripoline (Italian: [tripoˈliːne]) is a type of ribbon pasta noodles, similar to mafaldine. It is a thick ribbon ridged on one side, [4] and is often found in baked pasta dishes. It is believed that this pasta shape originated in the Campania region. [5]
Pasta, vinegar or oil or mayonnaise Media: Pasta salad Pasta salad , known in Italian as insalata di pasta or pasta fredda , is a dish prepared with one or more types of pasta , almost always chilled or room temperature , and most often tossed in a vinegar , oil or mayonnaise -based dressing.
Penne alla vodka. The exact origins of penne alla vodka are unclear, and to some extent the subject of urban legend and folklore.The first use of vodka in a pasta dish recorded in a cookbook is attested to 1974, when the Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi published the cookbook L'Abbuffone (meaning 'the bouffe-men', named after Tognazzi's movie La Grande Bouffe), which included his recipe of pasta all ...
Cudighi (/ ˈ k ʊ d ə ɡ iː /) is an Italian-American dish consisting of a spicy Italian sausage seasoned with sweet spices that can be bought in links or served as a sandwich on a long, hard roll, often with mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce. It is primarily found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the Midwestern United States.
Italian sopressata. Soppressata is an Italian salume (cured meat product). Although there are many variations, two principal types are made: a cured dry sausage typical of Basilicata, Apulia, [1] and Calabria, and a very different uncured salami made in Tuscany and Liguria.
Casarecce (from Italian casereccio, 'homemade') [1] are short twists of pasta originating in the Sicily region of Italy which appear rolled up on themselves like a scroll. [ 2 ] Casarecce pairs well with cream/cheese, meat, napolitana , seafood, pesto and vegetables.