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We used the homemade rosemary focaccia to do "scarpetta" sopping up the sauce to clean our plates!
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Sleeps, Eats Where? In New York, The Greenwich Hotel and Locanda Verde Mara Gibbs 2011
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We used the homemade rosemary focaccia to do "scarpetta" sopping up the sauce to clean our plates!
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Sleeps, Eats Where? In New York, The Greenwich Hotel and Locanda Verde Mara Gibbs 2011
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We used the homemade rosemary focaccia to do "scarpetta" sopping up the sauce to clean our plates!
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Sleeps, Eats Where? In New York, The Greenwich Hotel and Locanda Verde Mara Gibbs 2011
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We used the homemade rosemary focaccia to do "scarpetta" sopping up the sauce to clean our plates!
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Sleeps, Eats Where? In New York, The Greenwich Hotel and Locanda Verde Mara Gibbs 2011
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It merited the "scarpetta", the sopping up of the sauce with their wonderful bread.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats, Drinks, Sleeps Where? In Napa Valley Mara Gibbs 2010
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It merited the "scarpetta", the sopping up of the sauce with their wonderful bread.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats, Drinks, Sleeps Where? In Napa Valley Mara Gibbs 2010
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It merited the "scarpetta", the sopping up of the sauce with their wonderful bread.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats, Drinks, Sleeps Where? In Napa Valley Mara Gibbs 2010
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It merited the "scarpetta", the sopping up of the sauce with their wonderful bread.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats, Drinks, Sleeps Where? In Napa Valley Mara Gibbs 2010
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But I think readers of January Magazine’s brother-in-crime, The Rap Sheet, want to to know that a scarpetta is the hunk of bread you use to wipe gravy or sauce from your plate.
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But I think readers of January Magazine’s brother-in-crime, The Rap Sheet, want to to know that a scarpetta is the hunk of bread you use to wipe gravy or sauce from your plate.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
Prolagus commented on the word scarpetta
if your Italian date asks for permission to do scarpetta during a romantic dinner... he's not talking about playing footsie, much less it is a comment about your shoes.
(Further information on Wikipedia)
June 9, 2009
yarb commented on the word scarpetta
Very useful! Is this used as a verb, also?
June 9, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word scarpetta
We say fare scarpetta (to do scarpetta).
June 9, 2009
rolig commented on the word scarpetta
I always do scarpetta, if the sauce is tasty. Why should it be considered rude?
June 9, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word scarpetta
Oh, don't listen to them. I do that too.
Can I do scarpetta if I come to Slovenia, then?
June 9, 2009
reesetee commented on the word scarpetta
My mother has a different term for this, but I've only heard it spoken, never spelled out. It sounds like the Italian word for "soup." Must be her dialect. :-)
June 9, 2009
rolig commented on the word scarpetta
Absolutely, Pro! I just have to figure out how to say this in Slovene.
June 9, 2009
yarb commented on the word scarpetta
I think wikipedia might have this arsiversy, at least in the parts of the world where I've lived. It was once forbidden by etiquette, but no longer is. Surely it's not really considered rude in Rome?
June 9, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word scarpetta
reesetee: zuppetta? puccia?
June 10, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word scarpetta
Growing up, for me, it was considered borderline rude to NOT do it, because you were wasting the sauce/oil. Kids were excepted.
June 10, 2009
rolig commented on the word scarpetta
So I want to know about the word itself (sorry, guys, that's just the way I am). One translation tool tells me that scarpa means "shoe" in Italian. So when I sponge up the leftover sauce with my bread, am I "doing/making the little shoe"?
June 10, 2009
rolig commented on the word scarpetta
By the way, "arsiversy", Yarb? Is this a synonym for bass-ackward? (Though I would make it arsiverse as an adjective.)
June 10, 2009
yarb commented on the word scarpetta
See arsy-versy. I picked it up in Rabelais and it's wormed its way into my general usage. Yes, meaning back-to-front or wrong-way-round.
June 10, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word scarpetta
rolig: I don't know! The only google search results are not really helpful (all say the same thing without any reference); I will look for better information somewhere else.
June 10, 2009
rolig commented on the word scarpetta
Thanks, Pro! We're counting on you.
June 10, 2009
madmouth commented on the word scarpetta
the best part of bread-loving culture.
so often I've looked at the remnants of a delicious Korean stew and the hateful rice I can't soak it up with.
June 10, 2009
bilby commented on the word scarpetta
Yes rol, scarpa shoe, scarpetta a diminuitive. Italians use fare to do very widely.
June 10, 2009
rolig commented on the word scarpetta
I poked around the Slovene dictionary and discovered that škarp is there, marked as "usually pl." (i.e. škarpi) and "low vernacular" (code for "people say this at home but don't you dare use it in formal writing"), with the meaning "an old, worn-out shoe" or sometimes (dialectically), just any old shoe.
But next to it was the word škarpa, which is a perfectly respectable word that means "a wall between two different heights of land, to prevent erosion or landslide"; in other words, a scarp or (more commonly) escarpment, which my English dictionary tells me comes from the Italian word scarpa. I think this solves the mystery. When you're soaking up the sauce with you're bread, what you are doing is making a "little scarp", just like on Chained_Bear's beloved fortresses. So you're not doing scarpetta; you are making (i.e. constructing) a scarpetta.
Edit: The escarpment has been repaired. Thanks, Bil!
June 10, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word scarpetta
Fascinating hypothesis! I will ask for confirmation. In Italian (at least in modern Italian), scarp is either scarpata (sensu geologico) or a very unusual scarpa in building-jargon (synonym of barbican?).
June 10, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word scarpetta
*wonders which military history list she can add this to*
;)
June 10, 2009
bilby commented on the word scarpetta
Escarpment, rol.
Pro ... sensu? Is this the Sardo speaking?
June 10, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word scarpetta
Just the Latin.
June 10, 2009