A pizza that is cooked in a square pan with plenty of olive oil. It is often topped with onions, anchovies, tomatoes, herbs and strong cheese such as caciocavallo and toma.

This is an uncooked, unsmoked, and dry-cured ham. Also made from either a pig's or a wild boar's hind leg or thigh.

They are made of small lumps of dough composed of semolina, ordinary wheat flour, egg, cheese, potato, breadcrumbs, cornmeal or similar ingredients, and possibly including herbs, vegetables, and other ingredients.

A form of tube-shaped pasta with ridges down their length, sometimes spiraling around the tube. The ends are cut square (perpendicular) to the tube walls instead of diagonally.

Known as a traditional first course in a formal Italian meal. Considered to be an hors d'oeuvre.

Meaning "rice". It is a northern Italian rice dish cooked with broth until it reaches a creamy consistency.

A salad that features the colours of the Italian flag: green, white, and red.

America: Omelette

Italy: ?

Also called "eggplant parmesan". This dish is claimed by both the Southern regions of Campania and Sicily.