ciambella

For each place setting there was a knife, an ingeniously folded napkin, a soft milk and sugar roll, a bracciatella (something like the modern ring-shaped ciambella biscuit), a gilded pistachio-based sweetmeat, and some savonea (a sticky mixture of starch, sugar, and rose water).

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Even the cheese was living it up: along with a nutty 3-year provolone, ciambella all'aglio, and 2 kinds of salumi, we also got ubriaco al prosecco -- a cow's milk cheese that's bathed as it ages in all the grape stuff that's left over from making Prosecco -- all sitting happily on a slab of chalkboard marked with their names.

Cube: Philosophically Mine tannaz 2007

Even the cheese was living it up: along with a nutty 3-year provolone, ciambella all'aglio, and 2 kinds of salumi, we also got ubriaco al prosecco -- a cow's milk cheese that's bathed as it ages in all the grape stuff that's left over from making Prosecco -- all sitting happily on a slab of chalkboard marked with their names.

Archive 2007-09-01 tannaz 2007