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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Italian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Italian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
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.
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 ...
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.
Think you're a pasta expert? Most of us are familiar with spaghetti, penne and rigatoni, but what about the others you see on that restaurant menu that you aren't so sure of?
Bigoli (Italian: [ˈbiːɡoli]; Venetian: bìgołi) is an extruded pasta in the form of a long and thick strand. Initially bigoli were made with buckwheat flour, but are now more commonly made with whole-wheat flour, and sometimes include duck eggs. The preparation is then extruded through a bigolaro, from which the pasta gets its name. [1]
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Fettuccine [a] [b] is a type of pasta popular in Roman cuisine.It is descended from the extremely thin capelli d'angelo of the Renaissance, [2] but is a flat, thick pasta traditionally made of egg and flour (usually one egg for every 100 grams or 3.5 ounces of flour).