Gastronomy Tours. Tour Wine & Olive oil country - and other regions.
Links Links to other sites of related interest.
Sources Where to buy special ingredients and utensils.
Ask the Chef If you don't find your recipe.
maccheroni: macaroni macedonia (di frutta): fruit cocktail with maraschino or white wine, served for dessert maggiorana: marjoram magro: lean inaiale: pork maionese: mayonnaise mandarino: tangerine mandorla: almond manteca: cheese and butter loaf manzo: beef (alla) marinara: from 'mariner'- sailor style marinato: marinated maritozzi: sweet buns sometimes filled with whipped cream marmellata: jam, marmalade, preserve marsala: wine 'fortified' with brandy for the sea voyage to England (1773) - can be sweet or dry martino: angler fish mascarpone, marcherpone: soft cream cheese mazzancolle: very large prawns (Rome) medaglioni: medallions melagrana: pomegranate melanzane: eggplant mele: apples mele cotte: baked apples melone, popone: melon, generally cantaloupe;
-----prosciutto e melone: ham and melon antipasto menta, mentuccia (Rome): mint meringhe: meringue merlano: whiting merli: blackbirds merluzzo: cod messicani: stuffed veal parcels, usually in sauce midollo: marrow miele: honey mille foglie: short flaky pastry milza (di hue): spleen minestra: soup minestre: soup &/or pasta course minestrone: vegetable soup with pasta or rice Monte Bianco: Mont Blanc, a pure'ed chestnut and whipped cream dessert molecche (Venice): tiny soft-shell crabs mollica di pane: a binder for stuffings: the soft, white interior of bread, soaked in milk, water, stock or vinegar depending on the recipe,squeezed out, broken into crumbs with a fork. monachine: bullfinches more: blackberries mortadella: large spiced baloney moscardino (Genoa): very tiny octopus mostarda: mustard mozzarella: soft, mild cheese used in pizza;
-----in carrozza: fried mozzarella sandwich muggine: common grey mullet murena: moray nasello: hake nes pole: medlar pears nocciole: hazelnuts noccioline americane: peanuts noce moscata: nutmeg noci: walnuts
oca: goose odori: herbs olio: oil; all'olio: in oil olive: olives; nere: black olives; verdi: green olives ombrina: sea perch omelette: omelette orata: red snapper, bream origano: oregano ortolano: green grocer; ortolan orzo: barley ossohuco: shin-bone of veal, cooked with the marrow ostriche: oysters ovoli: (amanita Caesarea) wild, orange-scarlet mushrooms
