Meat Most of us will be horrified to see some of the inclusions I have made in the listings of meat products. However, I have included them for historical purposes only! I personally not condone the eating of blackbirds and robins but in the 1500s the Venetians used to adore Beccafichi, small birds that they imported chiefly from Cyprus. They would come pickled in jars of vinegar and eaten whole once the stomach had been extracted. If you were to research old Italian recipes all these unfortunate species would crop up somewhere. The other historic recipe calling for birds we don't consider to be food anymore is the Russian Doll roast, a series of deboned birds stuffed inside each other. The lineup for this roast reads as follows, in ascending order: Finch, Ortolan, Lark, Thrush, Quail, Plover, Lapwing, Partridge, Woodcock, Teal, Guinea Fowl, Duck Chicken, Pheasant, Goose, Turkey and Bustard! Meat Carne Bacon/Fatty bacon Pancetta/Lardo Beef Bue/ Manzo Birds (small) Beccafichi Blackbird Merlo Breast (e.g. chicken) Petto Bullfinch Monachina Capon Cappone Cheek (e.g. pig's cheek) Guancia Chicken Pollo Cold cuts Affetatti Cured salted meats Salumi Cushion (e.g. cushion of veal) Guanciale Duck Anatra Fillet Filetto Frog Rana Giblets Regaglie di pollo - lit. gifts from the chicken Goat Capra Goose Oca Grouse Gallo Cedrone Guinea Fowl Faraona Ham Proscuitto Hare Lepra Head Testa Kid goat Capretto Kidneys Rognone Lamb/ Shank/ Cutlet Agnello/ Stinco/ Costoletta Liver Fegato Loin Lonza Marrow Midollo Meatloaf/ Meatballs Polpetone/ Polpetti Milt/Spleen Milza Mince Carne tritata Ostrich Struzzo Partridge Pernice Pheasant Fagiano Pigeon Picciono/Colombo Pigs trotters (Stuffed) Zampone Pork Maiale Quail Quaglia Rabbit Coniglio Rib steak Costato Ribs Costole Robin Pettirosso Roe deer Capriolo Sausage Salsiccia Shoulder Spalla Snipe Beccaccino Steak Bistecca Suckling pig Porchetta Sweetbreads Animelle Tail Coda Thigh/Leg Coscia Thrush Tordo Tongue Lingua Tripe Trippa Turkey Tacchino Veal Vitello Veal marrow bone Ossobuco Venison/ Deer Cervo Wild boar Cinghiale Woodstock Beccaccia Young lamb Abbachio

 

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