Why Italians Love to Talk About Food (80 page)

Molfetta

Molière

Molise

Monarchists

Monday of the Angel,
see
Pasquetta

Mondazzi, Raffaele

Mondolfo

Mongitore, Antonio

Monopoli

Monregalese

Montaigne, Michel de

Montanari, Massimo

Montanelli, Indro

Monte Maria, Benedictine abbey of (Burgusio)

Montefiascone

Montelatici, Ubaldo

Montella

Montenero di Bisaccia

Monterosso

Monteverdi, Claudio

Monti Martani

Morano Calabro

Moravia, Alberto

More, Thomas

Morolin, Pietro Gaspare

Moscow Echo
(radio station)

Moses in Egypt
(Rossini)

mostarda
; dry

mozzarella di bufala

Mugello

Mulino del Po, Il
(Bacchelli)

Murano

Murat, Joachim

Muratori, Ludovico Antonio

Muratov, Pavel

Muravieva, Galina

Museo Civico delle Valli (Comacchio)

Muslims

Mussolini, Benito

 

Name of the Rose, The
(Eco)

Naples

Naples Millionaire
(film)

Napoleonic era

National Aviculture Union

National Oil Week

National Pasta Museum (Rome)

Natural History
(Pliny)

Needy, Banquet for

Nemi

Neuv Caval'd Brôns café (Turin)

New Year's Day

New Year's Eve

New York Times

Nicholas, St.

Nievo, Ippolito

Nigra, Constantino

Niña
(ship)

Ninfale d'Ameto, Il
(Boccaccio)

Ninotchka
(film)

Nizza Monferrato

Noci

Norcia

North, Baron Dudley

Notari, Umberto

Notizie sulla Lombardia
(Cattaneo)

Novara

Novellino, Il
(Taddeo)

Nuoro

Nuovi credenti, I
(Recanati)

Nutella

Nutellam Cantata
(Lerda)

 

Octave of Easter

Odasi, Michele di Bartolomeo degli

Odyssey
(Homer)

Old Man and the Sea, The
(Hemingway)

Olioliva (Imperia)

olive oil; in Catholic sacraments; Ligurian; Pugliese; Tuscan; Umbrian

Olympic Games: Moscow (Summer, 1980); Turin (Winter, 2006)

Onano

Onassis, Aristotle

Opera dell'arte del cucinare
(Scappi)

Orbetello

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Oria

Origo, Iris

Orlando Furioso
(Ariosto)

Orthodox Church

Ortona

Orvieto

Ospedale degli Scoti (Hospital of the Scots; Vercelli)

Ostia

Ostuni

Otricoli

Ottomans

Ovid

 

Padua

Paestum

Paganini, Niccolò

Palazzo Quirinale

Palazzo Vecchio (Florence), Sala dei Gigli of

Palermo

Palio (Siena)

Pallaro, Il, restaurant (Rome)

Palmanova

Palmi

Palm Sunday

Pancalieri

Pane e Olio in Frantoio (Bread and Oil at the Oil Press)

Pantelleria

Panzano

Paola, Francesco di

Paolini, Davide

Paolo, Giovanni di

Papal State

Pappagallo restaurant (Bologna)

Paradisia Alpine botanical garden

Paris Opera House

Parliament, Italian

Parma; prosciutto of

Parmentier, Augustin

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Fair of

Parole della terra, Le
(Veronelli)

Partito Nazionale della Bistecca Fiorentina (National Florentine Steak Party)

Paschetti, Bartolomeo

Pascoli, Giovanni

Pasquetta (Little Easter)

Passion of Christ

Passover

pasta; of Abruzzo and Molise; of Basilicata; of Campania and Naples; of Emilia Romagna; during Fascist era; for holidays; of Liguria; of Lombardy; of Piedmont; of Puglia; of Rome; of Sardinia; of Sicily; of Tuscany; of Umbria

Patio

Paul, St.; Feast of

Paul II, Pope

Paul IV, Pope

Paulilatino

Pavia; University of

Pedro IV, King of Aragon

Pedrocchi café (Padua)

Pellegrino Parmense

Penna d'Oca restaurant (Milan)

Penne

Pentolino magico, Il
(Montanari)

Peppone film series

Pepsi-Cola

Perezzolini, Giuseppe

Pericoli, Niccolò

Perruccio, Andrea

Perugia

Peruzzi, Baldassarre

Pesaro

Pescante, Mario

Pescara

pesto

Peter, St., Feast of

Petrarch

Petrini, Carlo

Petrocchi, Massimo

Petronius

Phoenicians

Physiologie du gout (Physiology of Taste)
(Brillat-Savarin)

Piacenza

piada
(medieval “sandwich”)

Piano delle Cinque Miglia

Piccinelli, Ernesto

Piceni

Piedmont;
bagna cauda
of; Futurists in; grappa of; history of; meats of; pilgrims in; polenta of; risotto of;
sagre
of; Slow Food movement in; sweets of; truffles of

Pierangelini, Fulvio

Pietro, Sano di

pigs and pork products; of Basilicata; of Emilia Romagna; of Friuli Venezia Giulia; of Lombardy; of Tuscany; of Umbria; of Veneto;
see also
prosciutto; salamis

pilgrims

Pinta
(ship)

Pio family

Piperno restaurant (Rome)

Piretto, Gian Piero

Pisa; University of

Piscaria

Pistoia

Pius IX, Pope

Piva, Ercolino

pizza; Jewish

Pizzo Calabro

Platina, Bartolomeo

Plato

Plautus

Pliny

polenta

Polenta, La
(Longhi)

Policlinico Umberto I hospital (Rome)

Polesine

Polignano a Mare

Polistena

Pomezia

Politeama Rossetti restaurant (Trieste)

Polybius

Pomona italiana
(Gallesio)

Pompeii

Pomposa, abbey of

Ponti

Pontinia

Ponzone

Poor Clares, order of

Popular Democratic Front

Popular Monarchist Party (PMP)

Porciano

pork products,
see
pigs and pork products

Porto Recanati

Porto Torres

Portovenere

potatoes

poultry; in Emilia Romagna; in Piedmont; in Rome; in Tuscany; in Veneto

Pratola Peligna

preparation methods

Prezzolini, Giuseppe

Procaccini, Gianluca

Procope, Le, café-gelateria (Paris)

Prodi, Romano

Promessi sposi, I
(Manzoni)

Proprietà di Mercato Vecchio, Le
(Pucci)

prosciutto; goat; pizza with; wild boar

Provenzano, Benardo

Pseudolus
(Plautus)

Pucci, Antonio

Puglia; agriculture in; architecture of; bread in; fish and seafood of; history of; holidays in; olive oil of; pasta in; pilgrims in; salt harvesting in

Pulcher, Appius Claudius

“Purgatory Dinner”

Purple Artichoke of St. Erasmo, Consortium of

Pythagoras

 

Quaranta, Gennaro

Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
(Gadda)

 

Rabelais, François

Radetzky, Marshal

Radicofani

Ragusa

Raiano

Raiberti, Giovanni

Raphael

Ratchis, King of Lombardy

Ravenna

Ravera, Lidia

Recanati

Redeemer, Feast of

Reggio Calabria

Reggio Emilia

Regole per i padroni dei poderi verso i contadini, per proprio vantaggio e di loro
(Lastri)

Renaissance; art and architecture of; banquets of; city planners of; diet of; pasta of; universities of

Republican government

Resistance

restaurants

Revel, Jean-François

rice: in Lombardy; in Piedmont; in Venice and Veneto;
see also
risotto

Rice Exchange (Vercelli)

Rice Research Institute (Vercelli)

Rieti

Rimini

Rinascente, La (Milan and Rome)

Riso amaro
(film)

Risorgimento

risotto; Venetian; Milanese

Ristorante del Cambio, Il (Turin)

Riviera di Ponente

Rivisondoli

Rocco, St., Feast of

Roiter, Fulvio

Romagna,
see
Emila Romagna

Roman Art, Museum of (Cologne)

Romanengo Pietro fu Stefano confectionary (Genoa)

Romanesque architecture

Romano, Giulio

Romans, ancient; cuisine of; holidays of; Jews and; military life of; mollusk cultivation and use by; pasta of; roads of; salt use by; sausage making by

Rome; artichokes in; bread in; department stores in; excavations in; history of (
see also
Romans, ancient); Jews in; nickname of; pilgrimages to; restaurants in; slaughterhouses of

Rome, Open City
(film)

Romeo and Juliet
(Shakespeare)

Romoli, Domenico (“Panonto”)

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roscius, Sextus

Rosolini

Rossellini, Roberto

Rossetti, Giovan Battista

Rossi, Martino

Rossini, Gioachino

Rothschild family

Royal Academy

Rubens, Peter Paul

Rubinacci, Leopoldo

Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor

Ruggero of Celano, Count

Rutelli, Francesco

Ruvo di Puglia

 

“Sabatina, La” (Belli)

Sabaudia

Sade, Marquis de

saffron

sagre
(festivals)

St. Patrick's Cathedral (New York)

salama da sugo

salamis; donkey; eel; mortadella

Salameide, La
(Frizzi)

Salento

Salerno

Salone del Gusto (Turin)

Salone del Libro

Salone dell'Olio (Milan)

Salsomaggiore

salt

Sambuceto

Samnium

San Carlo café (Turin)

San Daniele del Friuli

Sandragné, Fereol

San Gennaro, blood of

San Giacomo, cathedral of

San Giovanni in Laterano (St. John Lateran)

San Lorenzo fuori le Mura (St. Lawrence Outside the Walls)

San Marco, festival of

San Marco café (Trieste)

San Michele all'Adige

San Miniato

San Nicola, abbey of (Catania)

San Paolo fuori le Mura (St. Paul Outside the Walls)

San Pietro in Vaticano (St. Peter's)

San Remo

San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian)

San Secondo

San Silvestro, Night of

Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (Holy Cross in Jerusalem)

Sant'Agata Feltria

Santa Lucia

Santa Lucia restaurant (Milan)

Santa Maria
(ship)

Santa Maria Maggiore (St. Mary Major)

Sant'Ambroeus pastry shop (Milan)

“Santa Pasqua, La” (Belli)

Santiago de Compostela

Santo Stefano d'Aveto

Santuario del Bandito (Lula)

Saragat, Giuseppe

Sardinia; bread of; cheese of; under Fascism; fish and seafood of; history of; meats of; pasta of;
sagre
in; salt from; Slow Food movement in

Sarsina

Sassari

Sassoferrato

Saturarum Menippearum
(Varro)

Satyricon
(Petronius)

Sauris

Savoy, House of

Scappi, Bartolomeo

Scarpinato, Roberto

Scaurio

Schröder, Gerhard

Scuola Mosaicisti of Friuli (Spilimbergo)

Scylla

seafood,
see
fish and seafood

Sebastian, St., Feast of

Secolo XIX

second courses: of Abruzzo and Molise; of Basilicata; of Calabria; of Campania; of Emilia Romagna; of Friuli Venezia Giulia; of Lazio; of Liguria; of Lombardy; of the Marches; of Piedmont; of Puglia; of Sardinia; of Sicily; of South Tyrol; of Trentino; of Tuscany; of Umbria; of Valle d'Aosta; of Venice and Veneto

Sedakova, O.

Senate, Italian

Sephardic Jews

Sermide

Serrungarina

Sezze

Sfilata dei Misteri

Sforza, Ludovico (“il Moro”), Duke of Milan

Sforza family

Sforzas, duchy of

Shakespeare, William

sheep; in Abruzzo; in Lombardy; in Sardinia; in Sicily;
see also
lamb

shellfish,
see
fish and seafood

“Ship, The” (Baratynsky)

Shroud of Turin

Sicily; agriculture of; excavations in; fish and seafood of; history of; holidays and saints' days in; Jews in; olive oil of; pasta in; salt harvesting in; Slow Food movement in; sweets of

Siena

Signorelli, Luca

Sinatra, Frank

Singolare dottrina, La
(Romoli)

Skin, The
(Malaparte)

Slepkov, Professor

Slow Food movement

Snack Thief, The
(Camilleri)

Socialism

Socialist Party

Socrates

Sogliano al Rubicone

Sonetti de la semana
(Folgore de San Gimignano)

Sorano

Sorrento

Sotis, Lina

South Tyrol,
see
Alto Adige

Spadaccini, Gennaro

Spaghettata della Quaresima (Lenten Spaghetti Feast)

Spagnol, Elena

Spilimbergo

Spoletino

Spoleto

Stalin, Joseph

Stalinists

Stampa, La

Stefani, Bartolomeo

Stendhal

Stoppani, Antonio

Stupidi, Università degli

Suchard