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(smoked ham) and salamis,
as well as warming soups
including the classic minestrone.
Bread dumplings – canederli
in Italian but knödel in Alto
Adige – feature more than
pasta. Trentino risottos include
sweet and savoury variations.
Especially good are those made
with finferli mushrooms, highly
prized and similar to Tuscan
porcini (ceps) in flavour and
quality. Alpine trout is flavour­
some and game dishes,
especially venison and rabbit,
Delivering fresh vegetables on the waterways of Venice are popular in season, often
served with polenta. The
Friuli-Venezia Giulia on local menus. The area Trentino apple is crisp
A culinary crossroads, this produces fine sweet ham and and delicious.
region marks the meeting prosciutto (including the fabled,
point of Slavic, Germanic and succulent San Daniele). Goose is On the Menu
Latin traditions and was once a staple dish, as is Istrian lamb,
the poorest of the northern grazed in the open air on local Carpaccio (Venice & the Veneto)
Italian regions. Varieties of herbs and grasses that impart Wafer­thin slices of raw beef
Hungarian goulash and a delicious flavour. in extra virgin olive oil with
Austrian strudels often appear Trieste is famous for its rocket leaves and slivers of
Viennese pastries and sweet Parmesan cheese.
gnocchi, prune dumplings Fegato alla Veneziana Calf’s
sprinkled with sugar and liver served on a bed of onions.
cinnamon. Friuli’s dairy Jota (Friuli-Venezia Giulia) A soup
speciality is Montasio, a hard of barley and sauerkraut. This
cheese made from cow’s milk. cheap and filling dish is often
mixed with brovada – turnips
that have been steeped in a
Trentino & Alto Adige wooden cask of grape pressings.
Strong Austrian influences Strangolapreti (Trentino-Alto
from the Alto Adige combine Adige) Dumplings (gnocchi)
with hearty fare from the moun­ made with bread, spinach or
tainous region of Trentino, as potatoes, coated with butter
well as more southern Italian and cheese. Literally means
Fresh radicchio and peppers piled high flavours. Staple dishes include “priest stranglers”!
in a Treviso market cured meats such as speck

Risi e bisi Soft and moist risotto Polenta Cornmeal porridge Tiramisù A rich pudding of
mixing rice with fresh peas, served plain as a side dish, mascarpone, sponge fingers,
sometimes with ham and often with rabbit, or con coffee and Marsala. The name
Parmesan cheese. baccalà (with salt cod). means “pick me up”.

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