Italian Foods

Based on the descriptions, name these popular Italian foods and beverages.

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Description	Answer
Flat bread with tomato sauce and cheese	Pizza
Like ^ but folded over into a half-moon	Calzone
"Navel-shaped" stuffed pasta	Tortellini
Espresso with milk and steamed foam	Capuccino
Brandy distilled from winemaking leftovers	Grappa
Sauce made of basil, garlic, pine nuts, and olive oil	Pesto
Twice-baked almond cookies, often dunked in coffee	Biscotti
Egg dish similar to a crustless quiche	Frittata
Grilled bread, rubbed with garlic, and topped with tomatoes	Bruschetta
Generic toasted bread with toppings	Crostino

Description	Answer
Sweet lemon liqueur	Limoncello
Creamy rice dish	Risotto
Sheets of pasta layered between sauce and fillings	Lasagne
Cured pork belly	Pancetta
Dessert made with ladyfingers whose name means "pick me up"	Tiramisu
Type of cream cheese used in ^	Mascarpone
Italian style of ice cream	Gelato
Cornmeal porridge	Polenta
Sparkling white wine of Veneto	Prosecco
Uncooked, thinly sliced ham	Prosciutto

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63 Comments

Level 69

May 19, 2014

Very disappointed to miss both Biscotti and Polenta. I love these quizzes!

Level 81

May 20, 2014

It's actually spelled "prosecco", just so you know.

Level ∞

May 20, 2014

This has been fixed

Level 48

Jun 14, 2014

Dessert not desert

Level 32

Jun 14, 2014

It's spelled "dessert", not "desert"

Level ∞

Jun 14, 2014

Fixed

Level 70

Jun 14, 2014

I think "Prosciutto" is also known as "Carpaccio"

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Level 37

Nov 13, 2015

Nope, they're completely different things.

Level 56

Aug 2, 2019

@ItalianoMedio96

Nonsense. Carpaccio is made out of meat OR fish...

+26

Level 73

Jun 16, 2014

I'm Italian and I would consider a couple descriptions not really clear, but in one case 47% of the users got the answers (biscotti) it might be me being too picky. In another case, got by 98% of the users (pizza), I have to admit I am too precise. In any case, as you all know foreign words are often used with a different meaning.

Anyway, for your consideration: a twice-baked almond cookie it's a specific kind of biscotti. Please refer to english wikipedia where biscotti is a redirection of cantucci, which was my guess when I read the description - I only realized it was wrong when you mentioned that is dunked in coffee and instead cantucci are dunked or served with vin santo (dessert wine).

Biscotto (plural biscotti) is an umbrella word which includes many kinds of pastries/cookies.

As for pizza, as said to be extremely precise that indicated in description is the pizza margherita. You should consider about giving a broader description indicating various toppings.

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Level 66

Oct 1, 2019

Cantucci really should work.

Level 47

May 15, 2022

I can confirm that biscotti just means cookies as a whole group, so yes the answer should be cantucci.

Also frittata's description should be changed because as an italian when i think of frittata i just think about something similar to an omelette with some vegetables or toppings on it, not a crustless quiche, that is much taller than an average frittata.

+17

Level 66

Jun 16, 2014

This quiz is too American! Oh wait.....

Level 39

Aug 30, 2014

i wasn't aware the limoncello was supposed to be sweet...

Level 32

Apr 18, 2015

i'm fan of italian dishes...

+10

Level 65

Apr 13, 2016

Cappuccino is misspelled. There is double P

Level 83

Apr 20, 2017

Indeed

Level 73

Aug 12, 2019

Cappuccino is still misspelled, and still tastes delicious.

Level 80

Jan 29, 2021

The spelling for Cappuccino should be corrected

Level 28

Apr 20, 2016

great quiz

Level 42

May 26, 2016

please accept bruschetta for crostini

Level 71

Mar 26, 2018

I missed crostini. And I am Italian.

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Level 43

Oct 1, 2018

I'm Italian and some things should be corrected: biscotti is the generic term for baked cookies, they're not exclusively made with almond. And they're never dunked in coffee, no Italian does this in Italy. Also prosciutto is air-dried, "uncooked" may be confusing.

For the guy saying carpaccio is only fish, you are wrong. Carpaccio is thinly cut raw beef, but the term can be associated to any thinly cut meat, including fish. Raw is key here, not the animal.

Level 95

Jul 28, 2019

well, carpaccio was at first only raw meat (look for the entire fascinating history of carpaccio and his inventor Giuseppe Cipriani @the Harry's Bar in Venice).

then the name became widespread and was adopted for every dish of meat/fish/octopus/whatever thinly sliced.

Anyway Carpaccio was a painter, so no edible at all, unless you have a taste for unusual meat :)

Level 76

Oct 27, 2018

Carmella, where's the gabagool?!

Level 70

May 18, 2023

"Don't eat gabagool, it's nothing but fat and nitrates"

Level 54

Feb 12, 2019

I clearly can't spell my Italian foods... just eat them.

Level 47

Aug 1, 2019

Pasta Pizza Mama Mia! American here lol

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Level 45

Aug 18, 2020

yeah we figured

Level 80

Jan 29, 2021

But he sounds Italian in the first sentence

Level 46

May 24, 2021

*hand gestures intensify*

Level 45

Sep 12, 2019

First Try: gets two.

Looking at the answers: wait i should know all of these...

Level 83

Nov 17, 2019

I guess enough people guessed it so the approximate clue is fine, but prosecco isn't necessarily sparkling and is produced also in Friuli-Venezia Giulia - Prosecco village is actually there.

Level 31

Nov 25, 2019

Could Limoncino be used as an alternative to Limoncello?

Level 81

Dec 5, 2019

The food item in the picture was not first made in Italy.

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Level 82

Mar 8, 2021

Yawn. Yeah, it was invented in New York, right. Course it was. Or was it invented in the Middle East, because they made something called pitta/pita? Not having my very own DeLorean, I'm content, along with the rest of the world, to agree that pizza is an Italian dish.

Level 50

Aug 8, 2023

Wouldn't be a quiz without kalbahamut's nitpicking or encyclopedic explanations

Level 67

Dec 5, 2019

thought frittata was spanish

Level 74

Dec 5, 2019

I like the clue of cornmeal porridge. In my region it's called cornmeal mush. Polenta sounds much better than either of those.

Level 62

Apr 3, 2020

i got pizza. the hardest one

Level 62

Apr 11, 2020

i think it is spelled lasagna, but i am not sure

Level 89

Jan 17, 2021

Both "lasagne" and "lasagna" are correct spellings. Northern Italy uses the first, and southern the second.

Level 49

Jul 23, 2022

That's not entirely correct--actually, "lasagne" is just lasagna's plural form

Level 52

Jun 13, 2020

Accept panzarotti with calzone. And say cured/dried meat for prosciutto. Biscotti doesn't have to be almond.

Level 55

Sep 15, 2020

Cantucci should work for Biscotto.

Level 65

Sep 23, 2020

It only took eight attempts, but at least I'll know what to order in Italy!

Level 38

Dec 14, 2020

not too happy with this quiz...

Level 56

Apr 15, 2021

"Ladyfingers"

Ugh..

Level 40

Sep 10, 2021

This might be me being picky, but calzones are way more of an American thing, biscotti just means any type of cookie, and frittatas are just folded omelets.

Level 37

Jul 8, 2022

ahahah wtf!! Calzone is very real and very popular in Italy!

Also frittata is not folded. It's more like omelet is a folded frittata.

Level 64

Feb 16, 2022

I just put in pizza and pressed give up just for fun

Level 85

Feb 3, 2023

You should get out more.

Level 63

Jun 11, 2022

Italian food is good but so overhyped. People like it because it's safe. If people explored cuisines like Thai, Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Latin more they'd realize what they're missing

Level 40

Aug 2, 2022

Amen

Level 37

Jul 8, 2022

I'm Italian and I missed "crostino". What a shame! ahahah

Level 46

Jul 16, 2022

ANCH'IO hahahah

Level 45

Jan 8, 2024

IO HO SCRITTO GUANCIALE AL POSTO DI PANCETTA hahah

Level 66

Jul 23, 2022

Suprised not to see the more popular gnocchi and mozzarella.

Level 43

Jan 3, 2023

I want to eat now (:

20/20!

Level 70

May 18, 2023

Gabagool

Level 16

Jun 15, 2023

Polenta rules

Level 73

Oct 3, 2023

Please accept "panzarotto" for calzone

Level 43

Mar 24, 2024

please count crostini as a valid answer

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