194. Crescente

Half Moons

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    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

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What a strange language they speak in learned Bologna!

They call carpets rags; wine flasks gourds; sweetbreads milks. They say “sigàre” for “piangere” (to weep), and they call an unsavory, ugly, annoying woman, who would normally be termed a “calia” or a “scamonea” a “sagoma” (Italian for silhouette and, figuratively speaking, a funny person). In their restaurants you find “trefoils” (i