Ingredients & Condiments
Alkermes
Once an insect-dyed health tonic, this liqueur now adds a scarlet tint to Italian pastries.
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Ingredients & Condiments
Once an insect-dyed health tonic, this liqueur now adds a scarlet tint to Italian pastries.
Fruits & Vegetables
The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.
Meats & Animal Products
To circumvent a meat ban, Italian immigrants hid their soppressata in balls of cheese.
Sweets
The seductively delicious Easter cake once made an entire convent neglect its prayers.
Meats & Animal Products
After dining on this fish, your next course might be 36 hours of hallucinations.