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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Translation of An Italian Restaurant Menu

Problem
What are the dishes at my nearby Italian restaurants?

Answer
FOOD MENU
Italian - English
affumicata - smoked
aglio - garlic
agnello - lamb
Antipasti - starters
bistecca - beefsteak
bufalo - buffalo
burro - butter
Carne - meat (as in English words carnivore noun meaning meat eater, carnivorous, adjective)
(della) casa - (literally of the house) house style / home made / house speciality
con - with
di - of or from
e - and
Fiorentina - Florentine (style of Italian city of Florence) with spinach
fritti - deep fried
funghi - mushrooms
giorno - day (as in soup of the day and good day)
griglia - grill
Insalata - salad
limone - lemon
marinate - marinated
Milanese - style served in Italian city of Milan
Mozzarella - Mozzarella cheese
olio - oil
pane - breads
Pasta all 'Italiana - Pasta Italian Style
pescatora - with seafood
Pesce - fish
pollo - chicken
ricotta - a type of cheese, the word literally means recooked
risotto - rice dish, usually made with sticky rice which sticks together rather than long grain Basmati rice used in Indian restaurants
rosmarino - rosemary (herb)
rugatta - from Latin meaning wrinkle
salvia - sage
scaloppa - escalope (French) or slide ; plural escallopine
Scozzese - Scottish style - (menu says Scotch - does this mean Scottish style or with whiskey?)
smoked - affumicata
spinaci - spinach
steak - bistecca (not necessarily beef - check with staff)
tonno - tuna
tradizionale - traditional style
tricolore - triple colour (the three colours of the Italian flag: red, white, green, usually white cheese, red tomato and a green vegetable)
vitello - veal
zucchini - courgette
Zuppa - soup

English - Italian
and - e
(beef) steak - bistecca
buffalo - bufalo
butter - burro
chicken - pollo
courgette - zucchini
day - giorno
escalope (slice) - scaloppa
fegato - calves' liver
fish - pesce
(Deep) fried - fritti
garlic - aglio
grill - griglia
lamb - agnello
lemon - limone
liver (calves' liver) fegato
marinated - marinate
meat - carne
Milan style - Milanese
mushrooms - f u n g h i
oil - olio
rosemary (herb) - rosmarino
sage - salvia
salad - insalata
soup - zuppa
three colour - tricolore
traditional / classic - tradizionale
tuna - tonno
veal - vitello
with - con

DRINKS
Italian wines you may wish to order
Asti
chianti
doppio - double - as in double espresso
Prosecco - the area and the grape
Lambrusco
spumante - sparkling
rosso - red

CONVERSATION
Italian greetings
English - Italian
hello / good day - bon giorno
goodbye - arrivaderci
thank you - g r a z i e
not at all - p r e g o
please - per favore
'bye / so long - ciao

WORDS YOU MAY HEAR OR SEE
(la) tavola - (the) table

Tips
duo lingo
google translate
https://dreamdiscoveritalia.com/2015/06/23/italian-101-how-to-ask-where-is-the-toilet/

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Teacher of English and foreign languages. I have several more posts on foreign languages, restaurants, food, drink and destinations. Please share links to your favourite posts.

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